Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology in Arizona
12 providers, $159,377 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in Arizona
Across 7 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in Arizona who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $381,552 in total — an average of $54,507 each, of which $54,388 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1David SteidleyPhoenix$57,371
- 2Radha GopalanPhoenix$32,052
- 3Anita PhancaoTucson$30,884
- 4Geoffrey JaoScottsdale$21,382
- 5Andrew BosharaPhoenix$13,739
- 6Suresh YerraPhoenix$1,425
- 7Anantharam KalyaPhoenix$1,065
- 8Carl TongTucson$346
- 9Wassim AssaadScottsdale$313
- 10Katie MurphyScottsdale$305
- 11Sharon PowellTucson$289
- 12Patrick SarkisScottsdale$204