Ajay Tripuraneni, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Temple, TXNPI 1538120969
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 189 payments — averaging $88.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$6K
- Medtronic$6K
- Biotronik Inc.$3K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$324
- Boston Scientific$312
- Atricure, Inc.$273
- plus $921 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,67664%
- Food & beverage$5,91235%
- Education$1601%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 56 | $5,993 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 44 | $5,551 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 17 | $3,374 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 20 | $324 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $312 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $273 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $138 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $116 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $94 |
| Novartis | 2 | $86 |
| Stereotaxis Inc | 3 | $78 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $66 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $60 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $41 |
| Amgen | 1 | $37 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $36 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
| Acutus Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- AVEIR$3,866
- Micra$1,604
- SelectSecure$944
- AGILIS$689
- ARCTIC FRONT ADVANCE$532
- CARDIOBLATE CRYOFLEX$443
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$311
- DIAMONDTEMP BIDIRECTIONAL ABLATION CATHETER$166
- ENSITE$164
- Arctic Front$163
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$152
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$145
- Watchman$122
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$121
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$111
- Carto 3 System$110
How this compares
$16,748 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 233 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Texas.
See all clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Texas →
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 191 | $190,064 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 28 | $31,268 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 18 | $25,963 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 131 | $5,106 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 54 | $3,237 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 78 | $2,078 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 85 | $1,768 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 17 | $501 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 13 | $394 |
| Losartan Potassium | 16 | $289 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 31 | $280 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 48 | $279 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $138 | $190,064191 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $116 | $31,26828 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $66 | $25,96318 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 25th percentile of 233 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Texas.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Temple
- Javier BanchsTemple$148K
- Andrea NataleAustin$7.8M
- George ManoukianShenandoah$3.2M
- Rodney HortonAustin$2.5M
- Stanislav WeinerLongview$2.4M
- Michael DelaughterBedford$2.1M
- James DevillePlano$1.5M
- Robert CanbyAustin$1.5M
- Amin Al-AhmadAustin$1.4M
- Theodore TakataFort Worth$1.4M
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.