Angelica Lentner
Interventional Cardiology · Tucson, AZNPI 1497203350
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,332 of the $11,770 with a category attached, or 79.3%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 31.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,003 and has fallen 74.3% since, to $1,030 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $10,657.
Across 281 payments — averaging $41.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Medtronic$4K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$892
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$333
- Abiomed$236
- plus $859 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,43821%
- Food & beverage$9,33279%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 74 | $3,752 |
| Medtronic | 100 | $3,530 |
| Boston Scientific | 64 | $2,168 |
| Abbott | 20 | $892 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $333 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $236 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $148 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $125 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $102 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $85 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $74 |
| Novartis | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $17 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- SYMPLICITY G3$869
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$393
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$295
- Watchman$251
- CoreValve Evolut$165
- CARDIOMEMS$164
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$147
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$137
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$137
- Impella$133
- MitraClip$130
- JARDIANCE$125
- WATCHMAN Access System$125
- UBRELVY$125
- ONYX FRONTIER$110
- FARXIGA$102
How this compares
$11,770 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 223 interventional cardiology providers in Arizona.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 19 | $97 |
| Furosemide | 19 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Tucson
- Thomas WaggonerTucson$617K
- Kapildeo LotunTucson$365K
- Neil GheewalaTucson$141K
- Dexter de LeonTucson$74K
- William ThomasTucson$56K
- Ranjith ShettyTucson$50K
- Santiago RamirezTucson$45K
- Sulaiman RathoreTucson$32K
- Michel CorbanTucson$27K
- Sundeep ShenoyTucson$24K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.