Ei Ei Thwe
Internal Medicine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1699390013
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 119 payments — averaging $124.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Philips North America LLC$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$683
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$570
- plus $3K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,56717%
- Travel & lodging$3,82626%
- Food & beverage$7,86053%
- Education$6024%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 34 | $4,364 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $3,149 |
| Abbott | 17 | $2,112 |
| Philips North America LLC | 6 | $1,134 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 6 | $683 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $570 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 11 | $554 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $428 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 4 | $387 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $359 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $176 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $168 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $167 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $124 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Novartis | 2 | $54 |
| Amgen | 2 | $42 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $23 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Impella$2,203
- GALLANT$1,132
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$701
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$409
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$359
- Assure WCD$294
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$273
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$263
- ONYX FRONTIER$239
- Carto 3$231
- US Und$214
- LifeVest$204
- Barostim Neo System$176
- SYMPLICITY G3$167
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$167
- Inspire$150
- AMVUTTRA$125
- WATCHMAN FLX$119
How this compares
$14,855 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.
Other internal medicine in Phoenix
- Louise TaberPhoenix$8.5M
- Ernie RifferPhoenix$3M
- Frank LovecchioPhoenix$945K
- Allison PerrinPhoenix$861K
- Nasser HajaigPhoenix$687K
- Richard TayrienPhoenix$299K
- Sanjay ShahPhoenix$288K
- Kelly KrohnPhoenix$262K
- Paul WaxPhoenix$243K
- Paul StanderPhoenix$222K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.