Has Sameer Gupta, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,257 in general payments to Sameer Gupta, MD across 148 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 Sameer Gupta, 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 Sameer Gupta, 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.

Sameer Gupta, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Phoenix, AZNPI 1699117101

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,497 of the $10,257 with a category attached, or 63.3%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 26.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,265 and has fallen 63.4% since, to $1,559 in 2025.

$10,257in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 148 payments — averaging $69.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$3K
Atricure, Inc.$1K
Zimmer Biomet$1K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
Artivion, Inc.$904
Abiomed$855
plus $2K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,37633%
Food & beverage$6,49763%
Education$3834%

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	31	$2,686
Atricure, Inc.	12	$1,408
Zimmer Biomet	13	$1,182
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$1,080
Artivion, Inc.	43	$904
Abiomed	17	$855
Abbott	2	$301
Medtronic	2	$298
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	2	$297
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	3	$238
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$225
Acell, Inc.	4	$223
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$192
Alkermes, Inc.	1	$115
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$68
EKOS Corporation	1	$37
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	1	$35
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$29
Solventum Corporation	1	$26
Corcym Inc	1	$21
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation	1	$20
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$17

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.

How this compares

$10,257 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 100 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$28,228

Medicare patients

Services billed

153

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.

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Kevin BradyPhoenix$143K
Mark TassetPhoenix$118K
Merick KirshnerPhoenix$109K
Michael SmithPhoenix$29K
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Mark PetersonPhoenix$20K

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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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