Arturo Valverde, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1396750030
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 19 payments — averaging $205.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Abbott$375
- Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.$125
- Biotronik Inc.$113
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,69969%
- Food & beverage$1,19831%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $3,285 |
| Abbott | 3 | $375 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $113 |
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.
- Micra$1,973
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$790
- ENSITE$298
- Carnation Ambulatory Monitor$125
- Evera$125
- Solia$113
- Rivacor$113
- Edora$113
- BioMonitor$113
- Acticor$113
How this compares
$3,897 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.
Medicare billing
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 80 | $105,933 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 15 | $24,399 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 27 | $2,273 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 61 | $941 |
| Dofetilide | 11 | $857 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 15 | $323 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 20 | $161 |
| Carvedilol | 12 | $132 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 15 | $132 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 19 | $127 |
| Losartan Potassium | 13 | $115 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Scottsdale
- David RizikScottsdale$2.1M
- Krishnaswami VijayaraghavanScottsdale$927K
- Steven LesterScottsdale$336K
- William FreemanScottsdale$279K
- Paul UnderwoodScottsdale$259K
- Robert BurkeScottsdale$258K
- Imad KhaledScottsdale$252K
- Said AlsidawiScottsdale$222K
- Tasneem NaqviScottsdale$150K
- Philip GideonScottsdale$135K
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.