Wes Arlein, MD
Vascular Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1770529240
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $7,968 of the $12,024 with a category attached, or 66.3%. Medtronic accounts for 73.7% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,996, more than ten times the $472 reported in 2019.
Across 127 payments — averaging $94.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$9K
- Cook Medical LLC$701
- Stryker$603
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$389
- Endologix LLC$361
- Johnson & Johnson$159
- plus $944 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,96866%
- Food & beverage$4,05734%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 36 | $8,867 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 15 | $701 |
| Stryker | 24 | $603 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 16 | $389 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $361 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $159 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $144 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $134 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $127 |
| Amgen | 1 | $116 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $92 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $65 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Philips North America LLC | 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.
How this compares
$12,024 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 105 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 47 | $573 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 48 | $248 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Phoenix
- Jeromy BrinkPhoenix$392K
- Luis LeonPhoenix$185K
- Martin ZomayaPhoenix$139K
- Curtis EricksonPhoenix$44K
- Faez AyoobPhoenix$16K
- Samuel MoneyPhoenix$15K
- Dawn OlsenPhoenix$12K
- Joseph HesselPhoenix$11K
- Julio Rodriguez LopezPhoenix$10K
- Venkatesh RamaiahScottsdale$452K
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.