Iva Smolens, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Mesa, AZNPI 1992794564
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 63 payments — averaging $84.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Cook Incorporated$926
- Abiomed$616
- Edwards Lifesciences$441
- LSI Solutions Inc$230
- Cook Medical LLC$221
- plus $550 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,75752%
- Food & beverage$2,59148%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $2,366 |
| Cook Incorporated | 3 | $926 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $616 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 9 | $441 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $230 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $221 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $193 |
| Abbott | 4 | $85 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $52 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Covidien LP | 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.
- CoreValve Evolut$1,977
- Evolution$910
- Impella$506
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$269
- COR KNOT$230
- Echelon Flex$143
How this compares
$5,348 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 100 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Arizona.
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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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Mesa
- Hani ShennibMesa$52K
- Fadi KhouryMesa$42K
- Daniel EadsMesa$15K
- Darryl SteinMesa$8K
- Merick KirshnerPhoenix$863K
- Dawn JaroszewskiPhoenix$794K
- Brian DeguzmanScottsdale$630K
- Lishan AklogPhoenix$531K
- Chirag PatelScottsdale$293K
- Michael SmithPhoenix$225K
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.