Heriberto Gutierrez
Cardiovascular Disease · Tucson, AZNPI 1336142074
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 52 payments — averaging $37.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$343
- Boston Scientific$297
- Edwards Lifesciences$258
- Abiomed$163
- Philips North America LLC$131
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$128
- plus $634 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,94299%
- Education$121%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 10 | $343 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $297 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $258 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $163 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $131 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $121 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $78 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $72 |
| Abbott | 2 | $59 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $40 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $33 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $22 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Amgen | 1 | $12 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$1,955 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.
Other cardiovascular disease in Tucson
- Gregory KoshkarianTucson$608K
- Steven MottlTucson$340K
- Karl KernTucson$174K
- Marvin SlepianTucson$106K
- Elizabeth JunemanTucson$81K
- Stephen AlgeoTucson$53K
- Monty MoralesTucson$39K
- Christopher AngusTucson$35K
- Hoang ThaiTucson$30K
- David RizikScottsdale$2.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.