Has Santiago Ortega Gutierrez, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $628,489 in general payments to Santiago Ortega Gutierrez, MD across 442 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 Santiago Ortega Gutierrez, 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 Santiago Ortega Gutierrez, 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.

Santiago Ortega Gutierrez, MD

Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Iowa City, IANPI 1629148010

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.7%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 59.7% of the total. Among vascular & interventional radiology clinicians in IA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$628,489in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 442 payments — averaging $1421.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$375K
Medtronic$224K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$22K
Microvention, Inc.$6K
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$730
Viz.ai, Inc.$611
plus $380 from 6 others

$599,755in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $18,174 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.

Stryker$330K
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$186K
Microvention, Inc.$50K
Route 92 Medical, Inc.$33K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$356,27157%
Speaking & faculty fees$172,85028%
Travel & lodging$91,46615%
Food & beverage$7,9031%

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
Stryker	284	$375,292
Medtronic(2 entities)	132	$223,745
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$21,952
Microvention, Inc.	5	$5,778
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	6	$730
Viz.ai, Inc.	2	$611
Sirtex Medical Inc	1	$157
Johnson & Johnson	1	$91
Balt USA, LLC	2	$56
Imperative Care, Inc	1	$35
Route 92 Medical, Inc.	1	$34
Asahi Intecc USA, Inc.	1	$8

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.

Pipeline$179,924
SURPASS EVOLVE$176,039
SURPASS$124,987
TARGET$50,228
BROADWAY 8$32,400
SYNCHRO SELECT$25,900
EVOLVE PROLINE$15,438
SALVATION$15,150
AXS CATALYST 7$14,589
EMBOGUARD$13,910
INFINITY$13,200
NEUROFORM EZ 3$13,175
TREVO$12,738
AXS VECTA 71$12,600
SPOTLIGHT$8,025
ERIC RETRIEVAL DEVICE$5,000
1488, IDEAL EYES$2,812
AXS INFINITY LS$1,700
AVS ANCHOR-C$1,460
POWER-PRO$1,447

How this compares

$628,489 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 34 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$92,237

Medicare patients

107

Services billed

408

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
BrilintaTicagrelor	21	$12,537
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	27	$213
Atorvastatin Calcium	22	$202

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular & interventional radiology in Iowa City

Edgar SamaniegoIowa City$650K
Sandeep LaroiaIowa City$24K
Douglas PowellIowa City$16K
Gustavo AndradeIowa City$13K
Chad DavisIowa City$6K
Bradford OlivaIowa City$3K
Brendan CarneyIowa City$2K
Talal MouradIowa City$2K
Hans BindnerIowa City$1K
Jerry KovoorIowa City$1K

See the full list for Iowa →

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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