Toshinobu Kazui, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tucson, AZNPI 1205174794
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $12,859 of the $19,650 with a category attached, or 65.4%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 44.4% of the total.
Across 221 payments — averaging $88.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$9K
- Artivion, Inc.$2K
- BTG International Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- plus $3K from 19 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $1265.50 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.
- AstraZeneca$3K
- Medtronic$20
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,6008%
- Travel & lodging$5,19126%
- Food & beverage$12,85965%
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 | 102 | $8,726 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 15 | $2,147 |
| BTG International Inc. | 1 | $1,600 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 32 | $1,586 |
| Abbott | 18 | $1,164 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 12 | $1,048 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $814 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $704 |
| BD | 4 | $495 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $328 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $201 |
| Stryker | 1 | $191 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $72 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $66 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $58 |
| Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $48 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $35 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $21 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,818
- Impella$781
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$779
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$724
- ZIPFIX$640
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$634
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$528
- MATRIXRIB$519
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$464
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$395
- Avalus$364
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$334
- NA$300
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$267
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$261
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$259
- COSEAL$227
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$225
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$225
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$225
How this compares
$19,650 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 100 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Arizona.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Tucson
- Raj BoseTucson$118K
- Zain KhalpeyTucson$113K
- Rammohan MarlaTucson$90K
- Stephanie WorrellTucson$77K
- Christopher KomanapalliTucson$40K
- Elizabeth ButlerTucson$16K
- George MakdisiTucson$10K
- William CooperTucson$8K
- Jonathan RiceTucson$7K
- Dawn JaroszewskiPhoenix$794K
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.