Has Ajay Pillai, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $129,061 in general payments to Ajay Pillai, MD across 217 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ajay Pillai, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ajay Pillai, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ajay Pillai, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Richmond, VANPI 1477968774

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $90,000 of the $129,061 with a category attached, or 69.7%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 50.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $51,473 and has fallen 64.6% since, to $18,196 in 2025. Among clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$129,061in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 217 payments — averaging $594.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$65K
Boston Scientific$37K
Abbott$23K
Biotronik Inc.$3K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$267
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$220
plus $563 from 7 others

$86,436in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $21,609 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.

Adagio Medical, Inc.$86K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7,5496%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,7523%
Grants$90,00070%
Travel & lodging$18,33314%
Food & beverage$8,9587%
Education$4690%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	128	$64,854
Boston Scientific	37	$37,043
Abbott	31	$23,127
Biotronik Inc.	4	$2,988
Biosense Webster, Inc.	8	$267
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$220
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$189
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$165
Adagio Medical, Inc.	2	$84
Pfizer	1	$58
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$38
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	1	$14

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.

EMBLEM S ICD ELECTRODE DELIVERY SYSTEM$15,000
TACTICATH ABLATION CATHETER, SENSOR ENABLED$1,089
EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$899
Rivacor$859
Solia$859
Edora$859
BioMonitor$859
Acticor$859
AVEIR$668
Micra$563
COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$339
ENSITE$263
Carto 3$220
EVOQUE$189
SelectSecure$175
Penumbra System$165
EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$159
Perclose ProStyle$153
PERCLOSE PROGLIDE$123
AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$109

How this compares

$129,061 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 90 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$119,864

Medicare patients

207

Services billed

460

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.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Richmond

Kenneth EllenbogenRichmond$360K
Charles JoynerRichmond$85K
Binaya BasyalRichmond$79K
Jayanthi KoneruRichmond$62K
Kyaw Min KhantRichmond$51K
Jacob BlackwellRichmond$49K
Pranav MankadRichmond$30K
Vybhav JettyRichmond$20K
Harsimran SainiRichmond$17K
David GilliganRichmond$14K

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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.

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