Lorela Weise
Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1215515143
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 99 payments — averaging $112.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Cook Medical LLC$723
- Penumbra, Inc.$719
- Bolton Medical Inc$635
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$621
- plus $3K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$1,83717%
- Travel & lodging$9709%
- Food & beverage$7,30066%
- Education$9939%
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
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 | 22 | $3,895 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 13 | $1,819 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 12 | $723 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 6 | $719 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $635 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 5 | $621 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 8 | $577 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $359 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $311 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $159 |
| Abbott | 1 | $156 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $148 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $143 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $122 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $88 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Stryker | 2 | $40 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $34 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $31 |
| Merck | 1 | $25 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $23 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- ENDURANT IIS$1,172
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$635
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$480
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$419
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$419
- GORE-TEX Vascular Graft$312
- Penumbra System$311
- Indigo System$284
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$284
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$284
- Zenith$260
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$207
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$206
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$191
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$179
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$174
- Zenith Alpha$174
- ESPRIT$156
- MANTA$148
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$147
How this compares
$11,099 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 614 surgery providers in Arizona.
Other surgery in Tucson
- Rifat LatifiTucson$355K
- Sarah DucharmeTucson$150K
- Katie ArtzTucson$103K
- Jenelle OlsonTucson$72K
- Stuart MelcerTucson$71K
- Patrick ChiassonTucson$71K
- Andrew NejadTucson$57K
- Tiffany SonTucson$47K
- Michael ProbstfeldTucson$46K
- Guillermo Higa SansoneTucson$42K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.