Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Zain Khalpey

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Tucson, AZ Medical Doctor

NPI 1750441424 CMS profile 79119

6320 N La Cholla Blvd Ste 300, Tucson, AZ 85741

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General payments

$113,117

298 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$418,105

Paid to them · 11 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$24,078 paid to institutions, not to them · program year 2024

Through program year 2025, Zain Khalpey of Tucson, AZ is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $113,117 across 298 general payments and $418,105 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $24,078 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 98th percentile of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

13 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $46,791 83
2025 Research $40,250 1
2024 General $34,082 81
2024 Research $141,750 4
2023 General $4,782 51
2023 Research $72,250 2
2022 General $8,571 39
2022 Research $115,830 2
2021 General $9,809 13
2021 Research $19,975 1
2020 General $8,397 15
2020 Research $28,050 1
2019 General $686 16

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Zain Khalpey
  • Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median
  • Middle half of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Zain Khalpey were reported at $46,791. Among 4,073 Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles paid that year, the median was $791 and the middle half received between $208 and $3,074.

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Year Zain Khalpey Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $686 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $8,397 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $9,809 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $8,571 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $4,782 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $34,082 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $46,791 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Arthrex, Inc. $50,894 40 payments
  2. Atricure, Inc. $25,619 74 payments
  3. Abiomed $18,801 38 payments
  4. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $6,030 9 payments
  5. Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. $4,045 11 payments
  6. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $2,556 67 payments
  7. Abbott Laboratories $1,182 12 payments
  8. ImpactOrtho, Inc. $960 7 payments
  9. Corcym Inc $635 2 payments
  10. Medtronic, Inc. $596 7 payments
  11. Other $1,800 31 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $47,836 13 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $21,245 4 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $14,495 237 payments
  4. Honoraria $14,100 5 payments
  5. Travel and Lodging $10,915 36 payments
  6. Education $4,500 2 payments
  7. Gift $26 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Impella $18,523 35 payments
  2. SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM $16,955 12 payments
  3. EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX $7,491 46 payments
  4. Da Vinci Surgical System Surgery $3,000 1 payment
  5. Da Vinci Surgical System Surgery $1,530 7 payments
  6. DAVINCI XI $1,500 1 payment
  7. ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM $1,098 18 payments
  8. SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA $746 28 payments
  9. EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) $678 14 payments
  10. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT $643 5 payments
  11. Other $5,357 85 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. $418,105 11 payments

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 40 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$170,644

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

196

Average age 75

Services billed

408

69 women, 127 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 75%
Atrial fibrillation 65%
Heart failure 55%
Arthritis 51%
Diabetes 39%
Chronic kidney disease 37%
COPD 29%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

309 reported

Every payment, record by record

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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