Nitin Garg
Vascular Surgery · Avondale, AZNPI 1891914206
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,585 of the $9,275 with a category attached, or 60.2%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cook Medical LLC at 25.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,149 and has fallen 89.6% since, to $326 in 2025.
Across 110 payments — averaging $84.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Medical LLC$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$625
- Abbott$515
- Cook Incorporated$500
- plus $2K from 21 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $3919.62 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.
- Artivion, Inc.$36K
- Endologix LLC$3K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5005%
- Travel & lodging$3,15534%
- Food & beverage$5,58560%
- Education$350%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $2,355 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 9 | $2,158 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 26 | $1,514 |
| Medtronic | 18 | $625 |
| Abbott | 9 | $515 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $500 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $322 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $295 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 9 | $262 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $168 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $85 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Stryker | 1 | $56 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $42 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $37 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $27 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $12 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $3 |
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.
- Cook Medical Interventional Radiology$2,298
- Indigo System$1,897
- Cook Medical Advanced Tech$500
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$277
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$247
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$246
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$150
- HawkOne$149
- Relay Grafts$146
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$143
- AVEIR$131
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$128
- Penumbra System$112
- Supera peripheral stent system$108
How this compares
$9,275 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 105 vascular surgery 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 20 | $218 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Avondale
- Venkatesh RamaiahScottsdale$452K
- Jeromy BrinkPhoenix$392K
- Luis LeonPhoenix$185K
- Hammad AmerMesa$169K
- Baljeet UppalSun City$166K
- Scott BermanTuscon$150K
- Martin ZomayaPhoenix$139K
- Joshua BaldermanTucson$135K
- John PacanowskiTucson$85K
- Joseph VijungcoChandler$63K
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.