Robert Candipan, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Mesa, AZNPI 1457375529
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $22,212 of the $32,153 with a category attached, or 69.1%. Medtronic accounts for 75.7% of it on its own, with 39 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 344 payments — averaging $93.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$24K
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$2K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$806
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$588
- Merck$545
- Novartis$528
- plus $3K from 34 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1063.08 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.
- Abbott$1K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$22,21269%
- Food & beverage$9,92731%
- Education$140%
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.
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.
- Resolute$8,679
- HawkOne$1,535
- Abre$1,088
- Coronary Orbital Atherectomy System$1,009
- Peripheral Orbital Atherectomy System$845
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$537
- IN.PACT Admiral$332
- Admiral Xtreme$264
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$173
- Vascular Lithotripsy$155
- SYMPLICITY G3$143
- OPTIMIZER$143
- Dragonfly OCT$142
- LINQ II$120
- OPTIMIZER SMART SYSTEM$113
How this compares
$32,153 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 223 interventional cardiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 115 | $136,439 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 49 | $53,452 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 36 | $40,313 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 32 | $30,828 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 21 | $12,548 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 329 | $3,660 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 23 | $2,316 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 192 | $2,241 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 209 | $2,211 |
| Losartan Potassium | 139 | $1,529 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 104 | $1,407 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 17 | $1,313 |
| Carvedilol | 110 | $1,027 |
| Ezetimibe | 40 | $875 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 19 | $869 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| NovartisEntresto | $528 | $53,45249 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $279 | $40,31336 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $126 | $12,54821 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 223 interventional cardiology providers in Arizona.
Other interventional cardiology in Mesa
- Faraj KargoliMesa$115K
- Nachiket PatelMesa$107K
- Satya Prakash AtmakuriMesa$41K
- I-Hui ChiangMesa$27K
- Paul SorajjaPhoenix$1.1M
- Hursh NaikAvondale$781K
- Thomas WaggonerTucson$617K
- Timothy ByrnePhoenix$614K
- Haidar YassinPhoenix$434K
- Kapildeo LotunTucson$365K
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.