Blake Gardner, MD
Interventional Cardiology · St George, UTNPI 1134301997
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.6%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 93.4% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $102,205 and has fallen 99.1% since, to $922 in 2025. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in UT 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.
Across 732 payments — averaging $364.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$249K
- Boston Scientific$8K
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Abbott$2K
- Integer Holdings Corporation$2K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$74
- plus $27 from 1 others
Across 76 payments — averaging $2699.28 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$96K
- Edwards Lifesciences$66K
- Abbott$42K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$30,30511%
- Speaking & faculty fees$151,00057%
- Travel & lodging$68,44126%
- Food & beverage$16,9446%
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) | 592 | $249,150 |
| Boston Scientific | 74 | $7,921 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 29 | $4,860 |
| Abbott | 33 | $2,366 |
| Integer Holdings Corporation | 1 | $2,292 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $74 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $27 |
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.
- CoreValve Evolut$154,386
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$59,462
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$3,469
- Abbott (Circulo) TAVR project$2,292
- Watchman$2,074
- PASCAL$1,685
- EVOQUE$1,484
- AMPLATZER Occluders$1,230
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$848
- NAVITOR$189
- WATCHMAN Access System$150
- Portico Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve$141
- 3F$104
How this compares
$266,690 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 45 interventional cardiology providers in Utah.
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.
Other interventional cardiology in St George
- Jared CrisafiSt George$24K
- Wasawat VutthikraivitSt George$9K
- Alberto BrizolaraSt George$7K
- Olusola LajaSt George$3K
- David BoormanSt George$3K
- Mark PulsipherSt George$391
- Vamsee YagantiSalt Lake City$390K
- Anwar TandarSalt Lake City$131K
- Sanjeev TrehanOgden$95K
- Stavros DrakosSalt Lake City$79K
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.