Vicki Kalen
Pediatric Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1073588547
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 11 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 11 payments — averaging $85.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$125
- Novartis$122
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$112
- Stryker$110
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$105
- Amgen$93
- plus $269 from 5 others
Across 725 payments — averaging $6398.23 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$3.5M
- AbbVie$599K
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$149K
- Novartis$115K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$77K
- Novo Nordisk AS$52K
- plus $128K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$936100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Novartis | 1 | $122 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $112 |
| Stryker | 1 | $110 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Amgen | 1 | $93 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Secura Bio, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $20 |
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
$936 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 29 pediatric surgery providers in Arizona.
Other pediatric surgery in Tucson
- Cristina MetildiTucson$5K
- Ivan GutierrezTucson$167
- Jonathan PapicTucson$135
- Catherine CosentinoTucson$70
- Kenneth LiechtyTucson$40
- David NotricaPhoenix$950K
- Daniel OstliePhoenix$167K
- Lisa McMahonPhoenix$87K
- Benjamin PadillaPhoenix$33K
- Ramin JamshidiPhoenix$9K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.