Aakriti Gupta
Interventional Cardiology · Los Angeles, CANPI 1477998995
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 736 payments — averaging $188.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$55K
- Edwards Lifesciences$52K
- Medtronic$18K
- Abbott$8K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$3K
- Abiomed$2K
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,0405%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,6207%
- Grants$73,00053%
- Travel & lodging$16,00612%
- Food & beverage$32,94424%
- Education$820%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 41 | $55,093 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 593 | $51,601 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $17,964 |
| Abbott | 39 | $7,897 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $2,555 |
| Abiomed | 27 | $1,909 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 4 | $571 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $235 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 5 | $229 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $146 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Amgen | 1 | $119 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $94 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $22 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $21 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$50,136
- CoreValve Evolut$17,000
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$10,984
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$4,767
- MitraClip System$4,500
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$2,555
- Dragonfly OCT$1,500
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,131
- Impella$920
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$693
- Diamondback Coronary$536
- GENERAL ATHERECTOMY$266
- Indigo System$235
- Diamondback Peripheral$201
- OPTIS$194
- SYNERGY$154
- TURNPIKE$146
- ROTAPRO$139
- FFRct$131
- BRILINTA$125
How this compares
$138,692 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.
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 | 13 | $239 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Los Angeles
- Evan ZahnLos Angeles$1.4M
- Ray MatthewsLos Angeles$653K
- Steven BursteinLos Angeles$514K
- Jubin JosephLos Angeles$312K
- Rajendra MakkarWest Hollywood$16.6M
- Fahed BitarCovina$9.9M
- Rahul SharmaStanford$6.6M
- Matthew Pricela Jolla$5.8M
- David LeeStanford$5.7M
- Saibal KarThousand Oaks$5.4M
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.