Sean Tutton, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · San Diego, CANPI 1326099086
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $403,722 of the $468,827 with a category attached, or 86.1%. Stryker accounts for 75.0% of it on its own, with 34 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among vascular & interventional radiology clinicians in CA 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.
Across 532 payments — averaging $881.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$352K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$53K
- GE HealthCare$28K
- Boston Scientific$12K
- Galil Medical Inc.$10K
- Medtronic$4K
- plus $11K from 29 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $179,131 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.
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$1.1M
- Boston Scientific$150K
- Stryker$125K
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$5K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$3K
- Insightec,ltd$700
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$403,72286%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,9631%
- Travel & lodging$42,5529%
- Food & beverage$15,4843%
- Entertainment$1070%
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 | 294 | $351,528 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 82 | $52,927 |
| GE HealthCare | 20 | $27,575 |
| Boston Scientific | 21 | $11,683 |
| Galil Medical Inc. | 2 | $9,720 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 17 | $3,970 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $1,998 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 5 | $1,893 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $1,830 |
| BTG International Inc. | 2 | $1,323 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 11 | $624 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 4 | $601 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 17 | $453 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 4 | $424 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 7 | $399 |
| Philips North America LLC | 8 | $313 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 4 | $220 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 2 | $187 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $122 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $103 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $88 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $63 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Baylis Medical Technologies Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| BD | 1 | $31 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $19 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $17 |
| Avenu Medical Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- SPINEJACK$172,478
- OPTABLATE$103,554
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$85,968
- AUTOPLEX$55,345
- AVAFLEX$49,945
- IVAS$38,225
- PCD$37,182
- OMNICURVE$22,018
- MULTIGEN 2$20,599
- IVS - VERTEBROPLASTY PRODUCTS$20,005
- IVS - IVAS$20,005
- SPINEPLEX$19,261
- VERTEPORT$16,500
- VERTAPLEX$14,316
- General - Interventional Oncology$8,000
- VISUAL-ICE$7,128
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$3,333
- CORTOSS$3,300
- ICEFX$2,592
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,904
How this compares
$468,827 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 504 vascular & interventional radiology providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 13 | $134 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in San Diego
- Isabel NewtonSan Diego$193K
- Zachary BermanSan Diego$176K
- Hamed AryafarSan Diego$128K
- Quinn MeisingerSan Diego$116K
- Richard SaxonSan Diego$89K
- Kazim NarsinhSan Diego$60K
- Zachary RattnerSan Diego$59K
- Mahmood RazaviOrange$2.4M
- Keith TerasakiLos Angeles$1.7M
- Bart DolmatchMountain View$1.7M
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.