Nicole Sydow, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Flagstaff, AZNPI 1255598900
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 125 payments — averaging $32.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Boston Scientific$661
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$470
- Abiomed$235
- Smith+Nephew$206
- Amgen$200
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$501%
- Food & beverage$3,99399%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 28 | $1,046 |
| Boston Scientific | 33 | $661 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 13 | $470 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $235 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $206 |
| Amgen | 3 | $200 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $197 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $176 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $167 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $140 |
| Abbott | 5 | $129 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $115 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $41 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $30 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $14 |
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.
- (6557) Mechanical Tools$126
- Repatha$125
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$124
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$124
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$113
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$113
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$113
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$113
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$111
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$104
- LifeVest$101
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$101
How this compares
$4,043 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 29 | $197 |
| Carvedilol | 13 | $157 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Flagstaff
- Merick KirshnerPhoenix$863K
- Dawn JaroszewskiPhoenix$794K
- Brian DeguzmanScottsdale$630K
- Lishan AklogPhoenix$531K
- Chirag PatelScottsdale$293K
- Michael SmithPhoenix$225K
- Abdul Samad HashimiPhoenix$175K
- Hao FangPhoenix$171K
- Roberto CerveraLake Havasu City$153K
- Raj BoseTucson$147K
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.