Has Armin Kiankhooy, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $940,570 in general payments to Armin Kiankhooy, MD across 765 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Armin Kiankhooy, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Armin Kiankhooy, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Armin Kiankhooy, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Saint Helena, CANPI 1225156482

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $847,600 of the $940,570 with a category attached, or 90.1%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 99.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $232,703 and has fallen 74.0% since, to $60,582 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$940,570in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 765 payments — averaging $1229.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$937K
Medtronic$2K
Abbott$674
Edwards Lifesciences$599
Abiomed$289
Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.$78
plus $181 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$847,60090%
Travel & lodging$73,9508%
Food & beverage$18,7442%
Education$2760%

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
Atricure, Inc.	717	$936,780
Medtronic(2 entities)	17	$1,968
Abbott	9	$674
Edwards Lifesciences	7	$599
Abiomed	3	$289
Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.	3	$78
Kls-martin L.p.	4	$66
Johnson & Johnson	2	$57
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$21
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	1	$19
Smith+Nephew	1	$18

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.

SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$554,746
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$249,918
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$198,357
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$86,805
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$63,482
DISSECTOR$59,413
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$56,168
ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$53,450
LARIAT RS$37,500
ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$17,554
FUSION ABLATION SYSTEM$5,000
Cardioblate$1,182
COOLRAIL LINEAR PEN$946
KONECT RESILIA$326
Impella$250
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$191
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$159
Micra$152
MitraClip System$126
Confirm Rx$124

How this compares

$940,570 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$111,057

Medicare patients

Services billed

141

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Saint Helena

Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$764K
Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$875K
Wilson TsaiWalnut Creek$680K
Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$608K
Harmik SoukiasianLos Angeles$577K
Ali KhoynezhadLong Beach$476K
Jay LeeLos Angeles$462K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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