Daniel Hightower, MD
Diagnostic Radiology · Visalia, CANPI 1437173325
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 77 payments — averaging $95.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$3K
- Hitachi Healthcare Americas Corp.$920
- Medtronic$920
- Inari Medical, Inc.$354
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$255
- Merck$225
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1602%
- Food & beverage$3,47347%
- Entertainment$92013%
- Other$2,78938%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $2,820 |
| Hitachi Healthcare Americas Corp. | 5 | $920 |
| Medtronic | 23 | $920 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $354 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 7 | $255 |
| Merck | 2 | $225 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $219 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 1 | $198 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $168 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $161 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $147 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $143 |
| BD | 1 | $141 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $138 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $131 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $119 |
| Stryker | 1 | $79 |
| Aidoc Medical Ltd | 1 | $47 |
| Bracco Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
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.
- VenaCure 1470 Pro$2,789
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$303
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$303
- STEGLATRO$225
- Oasis$198
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$156
- SYNCHROMEDII$151
- VENOVO$150
- RotarexS 6 F x 135 cm$141
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$140
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$139
- EKOSONIC$138
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$136
- Cook Medical Catheters$133
- Impella$111
- MAGNETOM Sola$105
How this compares
$7,342 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,537 diagnostic radiology providers in California.
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 diagnostic radiology in Visalia
- Muhammad ChaudhriVisalia$254K
- Michael WangEscondido$14M
- Murray ReicherSan Diego$10.5M
- Charles PeterfyKentfield$8.1M
- Garry GoldStanford$6M
- Gary UlanerLos Angeles$3.3M
- Jerome BarakosSan Francisco$2.5M
- Armonde BaghdanianLos Angeles$2.1M
- Curtis LanglotzStanford$1.8M
- Albert HsiaoSan Diego$1.6M
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.