Brian Deguzman
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1184638264
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $629,277 of the $629,777 with a category attached, or 99.9%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 99.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $325,649 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $98 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in AZ 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 20 payments — averaging $31,489 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$629K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$270
- Amgen$121
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$53
- Lucid Diagnostics Inc.$20
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$19
- plus $17 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$629,277100%
- Food & beverage$5000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $629,277 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $270 |
| Amgen | 1 | $121 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 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.
- SternaLock Blu$629,277
- Otezla$121
How this compares
$629,777 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 100 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Arizona.
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Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Scottsdale
- Chirag PatelScottsdale$293K
- Rajeev KathuriaScottsdale$76K
- Robert RileyScottsdale$59K
- Francis DowneyScottsdale$22K
- Bryan BarrusScottsdale$19K
- Kristen Sell-DottinScottsdale$16K
- Pyongsoo YoonScottsdale$10K
- Staci BeamerScottsdale$9K
- Charles WojnarskiScottsdale$8K
- Pedro Reck dos SantosScottsdale$6K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.