Charles Wojnarski, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1194040030
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,543 of the $8,469 with a category attached, or 65.4%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 40.4% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $8,521.
Across 85 payments — averaging $99.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Bolton Medical Inc$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Abiomed$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$384
- Abbott$208
- plus $594 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,92735%
- Food & beverage$5,54365%
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 | 25 | $3,425 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 6 | $1,487 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 19 | $1,247 |
| Abiomed | 12 | $1,124 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $384 |
| Abbott | 4 | $208 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 2 | $174 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $173 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $134 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $39 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $16 |
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.
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$1,357
- Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$884
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$865
- Impella$667
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$518
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$397
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$305
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$182
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$173
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$144
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$143
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$143
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$141
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$140
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$102
How this compares
$8,469 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 100 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Arizona.
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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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Scottsdale
- Brian DeguzmanScottsdale$630K
- 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
- Pedro Reck dos SantosScottsdale$6K
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.