Has Mark Tasset, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $118,157 in general payments to Mark Tasset, MD across 260 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Mark Tasset, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Mark Tasset, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Mark Tasset, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Phoenix, AZNPI 1902848898

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.4%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 76.7% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $77,362 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $396 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$118,157in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 260 payments — averaging $454.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$91K
Intuitive Surgical$19K
Medtronic$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
Edwards Lifesciences$2K
Bolton Medical Inc$827
plus $2K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$61,93052%
Travel & lodging$29,80725%
Food & beverage$9,9208%
Education$16,50014%

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
Abbott	95	$90,607
Intuitive Surgical	38	$19,468
Medtronic(2 entities)	31	$1,756
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	7	$1,729
Edwards Lifesciences	33	$1,519
Bolton Medical Inc	7	$827
Atricure, Inc.	11	$618
Abiomed	8	$467
Saranas, Inc.	6	$286
Artivion, Inc.	6	$240
Baxter Healthcare	3	$125
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	1	$104
Heartflow, Inc.	2	$103
Davol Inc.	2	$69
Philips North America LLC	1	$60
Zimmer Biomet	3	$56
Johnson & Johnson	2	$28
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$27
Boston Scientific	1	$25
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.	1	$23
BD	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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$19,044
Product in Development$1,600
Relay Grafts$619
3F$384
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$366
Epic$333
Epic Stented Tissue Valve$332
Signia$318
Mitra Clip system$295
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$260
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$221
Impella$211
On-X$201
AMPLATZER$174
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$171
Grafts$150
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$145
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$145
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$144
Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve$140

How this compares

$118,157 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 100 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$125,401

Medicare patients

141

Services billed

342

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 Phoenix

Dawn JaroszewskiPhoenix$794K
Lishan AklogPhoenix$531K
Abdul Samad HashimiPhoenix$175K
Hao FangPhoenix$171K
Kevin BradyPhoenix$143K
Merick KirshnerPhoenix$109K
Michael SmithPhoenix$29K
Modesto ColonPhoenix$26K
Mark PetersonPhoenix$20K
Orazio AmabilePhoenix$20K

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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.

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