Device Interventional Access

Guardian

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Guardian. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$1,233associated payments (2023-2025)
37clinicians with associated payments
1company reporting

By year

2023 $167
2024 $618
2025 $449

Payments reported as associated with Guardian, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Interventional Cardiology $602
Hospitalist $271
Cardiovascular Disease $210
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology $34.05
Acute Care (Nurse Practitioner) $32.21
Nurse Practitioner $23.33

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Guardian

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Guardian. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Enrique Hernandez Vila Ponce, PR Interventional Cardiology $287.74
Jason Galo Washington, DC Hospitalist $143.42
Anweshan Samanta Baltimore, MD Hospitalist $128.00
Lynne Hung Mission Viejo, CA Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology $34.05
Aaron Yung Oceanside, CA Interventional Cardiology $32.38
Joseph Imsais Austin, TX Cardiovascular Disease $32.22
Victoria Goodwin Austin, TX Acute Care (Nurse Practitioner) $32.21
Richard Konstance Roanoke, VA Interventional Cardiology $32.17
Matthew Wiisanen Chattanooga, TN Interventional Cardiology $26.93
Sommer Ledkins Tyler, TX Nurse Practitioner $23.33

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.