Laura Cook-Gongora
Acute Care · Phoenix, AZNPI 1821622465
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $20,370 of the $32,402 with a category attached, or 62.9%. Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. accounts for 75.3% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among acute care clinicians in AZ 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 151 payments — averaging $214.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$24K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Cvrx, Inc.$713
- Abiomed$713
- Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$536
- plus $3K from 17 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $250.00 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.
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,37063%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,1006%
- Travel & lodging$1,2404%
- Food & beverage$8,65627%
- Education$360%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 50 | $24,398 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 35 | $1,830 |
| Abbott | 14 | $1,478 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 8 | $713 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $713 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 5 | $536 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 2 | $500 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $303 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $251 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 5 | $249 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $193 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $188 |
| ZOLL Respicardia, Inc. | 1 | $179 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $151 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $147 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $100 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $85 |
| Merck | 1 | $81 |
| EBR Systems, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $72 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $20 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- OPTIMIZER$47,877
- CARDIOMEMS$744
- LifeVest$730
- Assure WCD$450
- Barostim Neo System$381
- WatchPATONE$330
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$303
- Impella$272
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$193
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$193
- remede System$179
- WatchPat$171
- Perclose ProStyle$166
- Micra$152
- JOT DX$151
- WATCHMAN FLX$148
- AVEIR$138
- Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$117
- OPSUMIT$117
How this compares
$32,402 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 482 acute care providers in Arizona.
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 acute care in Phoenix
- Kim KrmpoticPhoenix$79K
- Cathy PaynePhoenix$26K
- Chandra SorrellePhoenix$16K
- Nicole RauscherPhoenix$12K
- Brooke GambinoPhoenix$11K
- Kelly WesselhoffPhoenix$9K
- Jenna GonzalesPhoenix$8K
- Kristen HudsonPhoenix$8K
- Tammy TyreePhoenix$8K
- Lydia ChongPhoenix$8K
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.