John Laird, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Sacramento, CANPI 1144290636
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (48.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 36.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $51,261 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $32 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in CA 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 238 payments — averaging $309.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$27K
- Philips North America LLC$12K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$11K
- Abbott$9K
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Cardinal Health 200 LLC$3K
- plus $4K from 21 others
Across 26 payments — averaging $5518.45 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.
- Contego Medical, Inc$131K
- Atrium Medical Corporation$7K
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
Across 2 payments — averaging $2010.00 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Reflow Medical Inc$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,17521%
- Speaking & faculty fees$35,87549%
- Travel & lodging$13,28318%
- Food & beverage$9,30413%
- Education$60%
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 | 28 | $27,074 |
| Philips North America LLC | 15 | $11,884 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 10 | $11,156 |
| Abbott | 19 | $9,127 |
| Boston Scientific | 97 | $7,282 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 3 | $2,993 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 10 | $732 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 15 | $699 |
| Inspiremd Ltd | 2 | $481 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $256 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $221 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 4 | $208 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $206 |
| Vasorum USA Inc. | 1 | $194 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 8 | $191 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $178 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 1 | $155 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $134 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $130 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Preventice Services, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $21 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- IN.PACT Admiral$22,374
- Spectranetics Undiv$11,231
- Supera peripheral stent system$6,000
- Chocolate PTA Balloon$4,000
- ELUVIA$2,625
- S.M.A.R.T. CONTROL Self-Expanding Nitinol Stent$2,225
- S.M.A.R.T. Self-Expanding Nitinol Stent$2,225
- SABER$2,225
- Omnilink Elite vascular stent system$2,000
- ANGIOJET$1,500
- LIFESTREAM$1,031
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$750
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$574
- CGuard$481
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$358
- 3F$229
- CELT ACD$194
- Lasers$173
- FFRangio System$155
- Indigo System$150
How this compares
$73,643 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
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 Sacramento
- Jason RogersSacramento$4.4M
- Gagan SinghSacramento$1.2M
- Thomas SmithSacramento$942K
- Edris AmanSacramento$516K
- Garrett WongSacramento$504K
- William BommerSacramento$194K
- Jeffrey SouthardSacramento$193K
- Andrea SoaresSacramento$159K
- Ted LoveHillsborough$102.8M
- Paul KurthSanta Barbara$6.1M
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.