Shant Vartanian, MD
Surgery · San Francisco, CANPI 1649308446
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 77 payments — averaging $1287.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inari Medical, Inc.$61K
- Boston Scientific$13K
- Provisio Medical, Inc.$7K
- Cook Incorporated$7K
- Surmodics, Inc.$7K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- plus $2K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25,80863%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,55016%
- Travel & lodging$4,19610%
- Food & beverage$4,19910%
- Education$360%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 8 | $61,050 |
| Boston Scientific | 33 | $13,497 |
| Provisio Medical, Inc. | 5 | $7,040 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $7,000 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 3 | $6,825 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $1,972 |
| Limflow Inc. | 3 | $642 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 6 | $438 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $288 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $266 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Abbott | 1 | $29 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Bluegrass Vascular Technologies, Inc | 1 | $24 |
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.
- Micropuncture$7,000
- SUNDANCE Drug Coated Balloon$4,200
- Sundance$2,625
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$2,616
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$2,616
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,743
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$1,425
- LIMFLOW SYSTEM$610
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$266
- Zilver PTX$151
- Penumbra System$148
- Indigo System$140
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$127
- VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$123
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$106
How this compares
$99,134 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.
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.
Other surgery in San Francisco
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.9M
- Peter StockSan Francisco$6.5M
- Errol BushSan Francisco$525K
- Shane BurchSan Francisco$500K
- Hobart HarrisSan Francisco$487K
- Charles EichlerSan Francisco$332K
- Jasleen KukrejaSan Francisco$310K
- Garrett RollSan Francisco$282K
- Stanley RogersSan Francisco$213K
- Michael AlvaradoSan Francisco$201K
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.