Kristen Sell-Dottin, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1245521640
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $10,386 of the $15,688 with a category attached, or 66.2%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 49.6% of the total.
Across 123 payments — averaging $127.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$8K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Artivion, Inc.$371
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$143
- plus $283 from 4 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $1711.22 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.
- Medtronic$33K
- Bolton Medical Inc$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3752%
- Travel & lodging$10,38666%
- Food & beverage$4,89631%
- Education$300%
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) | 69 | $7,787 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 26 | $4,247 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 11 | $1,827 |
| Abbott | 10 | $1,030 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $371 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $134 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $99 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $29 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $21 |
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 R$3,196
- CoreValve Evolut$2,422
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$1,452
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,098
- EVOQUE$1,054
- TENDYNE$484
- Simulus$375
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$371
- Epic$300
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$218
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$158
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$154
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$143
- COSEAL$134
- FLOSEAL$134
- TISSEEL$134
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$102
How this compares
$15,688 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 Scottsdale
- Brian DeguzmanScottsdale$630K
- Chirag PatelScottsdale$293K
- Rajeev KathuriaScottsdale$76K
- Robert RileyScottsdale$59K
- Francis DowneyScottsdale$22K
- Bryan BarrusScottsdale$19K
- Pyongsoo YoonScottsdale$10K
- Staci BeamerScottsdale$9K
- Charles WojnarskiScottsdale$8K
- Pedro Reck dos SantosScottsdale$6K
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.