Ada Stefanescu
Interventional Cardiology · Boston, MANPI 1518274117
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (39.4%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc. at 35.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,318, more than ten times the $33 reported in 2019.
Across 82 payments — averaging $243.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc.$7K
- Medtronic$4K
- Abiomed$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Abbott$2K
- ZOLL Circulation Inc$121
Across 9 payments — averaging $9966.95 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Edwards Lifesciences$71K
- Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc.$19K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,72524%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,75014%
- Travel & lodging$7,86939%
- Food & beverage$4,61623%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc. | 8 | $7,167 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 36 | $4,052 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $3,579 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 17 | $2,890 |
| Abbott | 15 | $2,152 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $121 |
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.
- NIT-OCCLUD PDA$6,192
- Impella$3,393
- HARMONY$2,645
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,610
- NAVITOR$1,238
- OCCLUTECH PISTOL PUSHER$792
- THE EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 VALVE WITH ALTERRA ADAPTIVE PRESTENT SYSTEM$542
- MitraClip$325
- CARDIOMEMS$147
- Diamondback Coronary$138
- TherOx DS2 Console$121
- Catheter$121
- Downstream Cartridge$121
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$111
How this compares
$19,961 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 128 interventional cardiology providers in Massachusetts.
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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.
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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.