Francis Surdakowski
Cardiovascular Disease · Phoenix, AZNPI 1346241445
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 157 payments — averaging $19.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$881
- Novartis$535
- Amgen$269
- Johnson & Johnson$216
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$119
- AstraZeneca$115
- plus $856 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,94598%
- Education$462%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 14 | $881 |
| Novartis | 64 | $535 |
| Amgen | 16 | $269 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $216 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $115 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $115 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $100 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 7 | $98 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $92 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $69 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $69 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 2 | $33 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $26 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
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.
- CardioMEMS HF System$309
- QUADRA ASSURA$151
- QUADRA ALLURE MP$141
- Carto 3 System$119
- Flexitouch Plus$115
- ENTRE$115
How this compares
$2,991 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.
Other cardiovascular disease in Phoenix
- Ashish GuptaPhoenix$1.2M
- Rajkumar SugumaranPhoenix$957K
- Robert ScottPhoenix$331K
- Julie RosenthalPhoenix$313K
- Tabitha MoePhoenix$256K
- Mehrdad SaririanPhoenix$158K
- Jesse SethiPhoenix$150K
- Adam SabbathPhoenix$109K
- Venkataramanan GangadharanPhoenix$97K
- Namit RohantPhoenix$83K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.