Gary Mintz
Washington, DCNPI 1225307523
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $308,188 of the $451,004 with a category attached, or 68.3%. Boston Scientific accounts for 74.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $107,051 and has fallen 65.1% since, to $37,310 in 2025.
Across 127 payments — averaging $3551.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$336K
- Medtronic$101K
- Abbott$5K
- Spectrawave, Inc$4K
- Gentuity, LLC$3K
- Philips North America LLC$2K
- plus $624 from 2 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $55,797 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Spectrawave, Inc$167K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$114,30025%
- Speaking & faculty fees$308,18868%
- Grants$5000%
- Travel & lodging$23,8045%
- Food & beverage$4,2131%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 80 | $335,685 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 29 | $100,945 |
| Abbott | 2 | $5,057 |
| Spectrawave, Inc | 8 | $4,178 |
| Gentuity, LLC | 4 | $2,906 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $1,611 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $500 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$122,380
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$116,248
- Resolute$64,996
- OPTICROSS$26,000
- GENERAL ULTRASOUND$9,750
- Onyx$5,390
- OPTIS$5,057
- HyperVue Imaging System$3,178
- Gentuity HF-OCT Imaging System$2,861
- Vis-Rx$2,861
- Starlight Imaging Catheter$1,660
- Spectranetics Undiv$1,500
- ACIST RXi NAVVUS$938
- ONYX FRONTIER$165
- FFRangio$146
- Indigo System$124
- GENERAL ATHERECTOMY$119
- IGT D Coronary$111
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.