Ignacio Inglessis-Azuaje, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Boston, MANPI 1134186927
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $335,974 of the $545,230 with a category attached, or 61.6%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 42.2% of the total. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 773 payments — averaging $705.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$230K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$120K
- Medtronic$115K
- Abbott$45K
- Boston Scientific$21K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$13K
- plus $1K from 5 others
Across 472 payments — averaging $6311.88 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Edwards Lifesciences$1.3M
- Boston Scientific$585K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$401K
- Medtronic$393K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$130K
- Abbott$127K
- plus $48K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$335,97462%
- Speaking & faculty fees$106,47120%
- Travel & lodging$80,97115%
- Food & beverage$21,8134%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 312 | $229,986 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 91 | $120,168 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 244 | $115,339 |
| Abbott | 65 | $44,620 |
| Boston Scientific | 48 | $21,009 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 8 | $13,060 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $576 |
| Ancora Heart, Inc. | 1 | $234 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $200 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$189,290
- CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$50,702
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$46,805
- GORE CARDIOFORM ASD Occluder$34,015
- AMPLATZER Occluders$23,679
- PASCAL$22,625
- CoreValve Evolut$18,468
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$14,889
- MitraClip$14,831
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$12,965
- Product in Development$12,825
- Resolute$10,655
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$8,888
- NAVITOR$2,969
- RESOLUTE ONYX$940
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$878
- THE EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 VALVE WITH ALTERRA ADAPTIVE PRESTENT SYSTEM$837
- PORTICO$734
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$723
- Impella$576
How this compares
$545,230 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.
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 cardiovascular disease in Boston
- Marc SabatineBoston$3.9M
- Elizabeth NabelBoston$2.2M
- Kenneth RosenfieldBoston$1.4M
- James JanuzziBoston$1.1M
- Muthiah VaduganathanBoston$972K
- Joseph LoscalzoBoston$926K
- Sunil KapurBoston$823K
- Paul ZeiBoston$786K
- Paul RidkerBoston$572K
- Jorge PlutzkyBoston$528K
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.