Modesto Colon, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Phoenix, AZNPI 1083873574
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.5%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.4%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,939, 4.4 times the $1,584 reported in 2019.
Across 247 payments — averaging $104.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Transmedics, Inc.$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Abbott$3K
- Artivion, Inc.$3K
- Bolton Medical Inc$2K
- plus $5K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,61314%
- Travel & lodging$7,33028%
- Food & beverage$14,82658%
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(2 entities) | 24 | $4,750 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 1 | $4,383 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 74 | $3,936 |
| Abbott | 47 | $3,004 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 10 | $2,710 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 19 | $1,591 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $1,106 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $819 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $699 |
| Abiomed | 10 | $512 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $508 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $273 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $254 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $201 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $151 |
| Amgen | 1 | $125 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $104 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 2 | $103 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $73 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $63 |
| Saranas, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
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.
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$4,383
- CoreValve Evolut$3,563
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$2,292
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,087
- Epic$684
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$623
- LifeVest$606
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$577
- Relay Grafts$571
- A&E MEDICAL / STERNALOCK XP RIGID FIXATION SYSTEM$527
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$521
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$431
- Avalus$398
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$386
- Epic Stented Tissue Valve$370
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$366
- KONECT RESILIA$358
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$272
- FIBRYGA$254
- Impella$235
How this compares
$25,768 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 Phoenix
- Dawn JaroszewskiPhoenix$794K
- Lishan AklogPhoenix$531K
- Abdul Samad HashimiPhoenix$175K
- Hao FangPhoenix$171K
- Kevin BradyPhoenix$143K
- Mark TassetPhoenix$118K
- Merick KirshnerPhoenix$109K
- Michael SmithPhoenix$29K
- Mark PetersonPhoenix$20K
- Orazio AmabilePhoenix$20K
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.