RxDoctor Payments Data

John Schor, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cottonwood, AZNPI 1568459717

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,276 of the $4,962 with a category attached, or 86.2%. It is spread thinly across 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,372 and has fallen 69.7% since, to $416 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $8,521.

$4,962in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 108 payments — averaging $45.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
  • Cook Medical LLC$976
  • Boston Scientific$581
  • Inari Medical, Inc.$541
  • Medtronic$457
  • Endologix LLC$404
  • plus $967 from 23 others
$96,316in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $3009.88 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.

  • Inari Medical, Inc.$92K
  • Stryker$4K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$68614%
  • Food & beverage$4,27686%

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

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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.

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

$4,962 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

Part B allowed, 2024
$100,069
Medicare patients
273
Services billed
540

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.

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