Vanitha Vasudevan, MD
Surgery · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1639313315
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $42,250 of the $48,589 with a category attached, or 87.0%. Acera Surgical, Inc. accounts for 87.0% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $42,445 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $71 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in AZ 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 82 payments — averaging $592.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$42K
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$909
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$270
- Sirtex Medical Inc$243
- Johnson & Johnson$198
- plus $829 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,9124%
- Food & beverage$3,4277%
- Education$1,0002%
- Other$42,25087%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $42,250 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 30 | $3,890 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $909 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 5 | $270 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 4 | $243 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $198 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $196 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $143 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 5 | $107 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $106 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $89 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $46 |
| Merck | 2 | $39 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Elucent Medical | 2 | $26 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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
$48,589 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 614 surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anastrozole | 14 | $183 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 16 | $81 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $31 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 13 | $6 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Scottsdale
- Deva BooneScottsdale$78K
- James SwainScottsdale$49K
- Sommer GuniaScottsdale$28K
- Noemi SigaloveScottsdale$27K
- Hadi NajafianSun City$1.6M
- Conrad BallecerPhoenix$893K
- Jennifer PrestonPhoenix$320K
- Ramon MoureloCasa Grande$317K
- Simon LavotshkinYuma$309K
- Morgan CriggerPhoenix$235K
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.