Suzanne Arnold, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Kansas City, MONPI 1154474120
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 43 payments — averaging $341.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$10K
- Abbott$4K
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$147
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$131
- Novartis$122
- Novo Nordisk$120
- plus $80 from 1 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $71.50 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.
- Amgen$72
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,37564%
- Travel & lodging$1,70512%
- Food & beverage$3,61625%
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 | 7 | $9,946 |
| Abbott | 31 | $4,151 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $147 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Novartis | 1 | $122 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $120 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $80 |
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
$14,696 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 391 cardiovascular disease providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 167 | $152,347 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 31 | $40,140 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 26 | $35,781 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 205 | $2,522 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 56 | $2,114 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 141 | $1,774 |
| Torsemide | 94 | $1,681 |
| Ezetimibe | 34 | $1,478 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 50 | $1,390 |
| Spironolactone | 262 | $1,255 |
| Valsartan | 20 | $1,217 |
| Losartan Potassium | 156 | $1,183 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 175 | $1,128 |
| Carvedilol | 123 | $866 |
| Chlorthalidone | 40 | $688 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Kansas City
- Mikhail KosiborodKansas City$27.8M
- John SpertusKansas City$2.3M
- Rajat BaruaKansas City$264K
- Kyle LehenbauerKansas City$108K
- Paramdeep BawejaKansas City$68K
- Deepa UpadhyayaKansas City$58K
- John LeeKansas City$45K
- David SkolnickKansas City$44K
- Garth GrahamKansas City$32K
- Mohammad TahirSaint Louis$2.7M
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.