Varun Tandon, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Mesa, AZNPI 1902251903
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 122 payments — averaging $94.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$1K
- AOP Health US, LLC$942
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,84925%
- Food & beverage$8,22071%
- Education$5114%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $2,209 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 9 | $2,058 |
| Medtronic | 18 | $1,773 |
| Abiomed | 11 | $1,141 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 10 | $1,093 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 1 | $942 |
| Abbott | 10 | $457 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $275 |
| Amgen | 6 | $258 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 3 | $248 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $189 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $162 |
| Novartis | 7 | $157 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 5 | $114 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 2 | $97 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $86 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $28 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Stryker | 1 | $17 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Indigo System$1,983
- Rapiblyk$1,885
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$872
- RESOLUTE ONYX$705
- Impella$651
- VenaSeal$326
- SYMPLICITY G3$289
- ENSITE$209
- ONYX FRONTIER$164
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$160
- General - Balloon Catheters$147
- AVVIGO Guidance System$138
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$135
- LifeVest$131
- Yupelri$125
- ROTAPRO$119
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$119
- Repatha$118
- Micra$105
How this compares
$11,581 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 223 interventional cardiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 89 | $1,350 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 19 | $363 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 25 | $316 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 23 | $233 |
| Lisinopril | 12 | $89 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 15 | $70 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 17 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Mesa
- Nachiket PatelMesa$271K
- Jaskamal KahlonMesa$202K
- Alphonse AmbrosiaMesa$180K
- I-Hui ChiangMesa$165K
- Faraj KargoliMesa$115K
- Satya Prakash AtmakuriMesa$43K
- Robert CandipanMesa$33K
- Paul SorajjaPhoenix$8.8M
- Thomas WaggonerTucson$4.1M
- Hursh NaikAvondale$2.2M
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.