Has Robert Riley, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $59,130 in general payments to Robert Riley, MD across 160 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 Robert Riley, 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 Robert Riley, 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.

Robert Riley, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1225037328

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $47,438 of the $59,130 with a category attached, or 80.2%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 86.5% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$59,130in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 160 payments — averaging $369.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$51K
Boston Scientific$3K
Abiomed$2K
Medtronic$1K
Zimmer Biomet$636
Atricure, Inc.$367
plus $942 from 8 others

$10,909in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $2181.85 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.

Arrow International, Inc.$7K
Medtronic$4K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$47,43880%
Travel & lodging$3,9287%
Food & beverage$7,70113%
Education$630%

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	66	$51,129
Boston Scientific	3	$2,826
Abiomed	30	$1,744
Medtronic(2 entities)	27	$1,486
Zimmer Biomet	5	$636
Atricure, Inc.	11	$367
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$242
Abbott	3	$183
Bolton Medical Inc	3	$161
Enablecv Inc.	1	$144
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$122
Baxter Healthcare	2	$42
Artivion, Inc.	4	$29
CSL Behring	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.

Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$4,611
CROSSBOSS$2,800
EVOQUE$1,176
Impella$1,051
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$619
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$518
CMF & Thoracic-None$391
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$226
STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$183
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$165
MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$162
CoreValve Evolut$159
EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$156
Xience V coronary stent system$146
THRUPORT SYSTEMS INTRACLUDE INTRA-AORTIC OCCLUSION DEVICE$144
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$143
GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$140
HARMONY$131
GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$102

How this compares

$59,130 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 100 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$418,446

Medicare patients

362

Services billed

723

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 Scottsdale

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Rajeev KathuriaScottsdale$76K
Francis DowneyScottsdale$22K
Bryan BarrusScottsdale$19K
Kristen Sell-DottinScottsdale$16K
Pyongsoo YoonScottsdale$10K
Staci BeamerScottsdale$9K
Charles WojnarskiScottsdale$8K
Pedro Reck dos SantosScottsdale$6K

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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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