Akhil Gade
Interventional Cardiology · Yuma, AZNPI 1548755945
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 137 payments — averaging $97.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$889
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$3332%
- Travel & lodging$4,84736%
- Food & beverage$7,73158%
- Education$4794%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 54 | $4,180 |
| Boston Scientific | 20 | $2,997 |
| Abbott | 14 | $1,720 |
| Abiomed | 13 | $1,304 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 13 | $1,250 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 5 | $889 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $491 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 5 | $202 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $106 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $87 |
| Amgen | 1 | $50 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $37 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,582
- XACT$863
- RUBY Coil$696
- Impella$679
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$500
- ENSITE$410
- ONYX FRONTIER$377
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$343
- SYMPLICITY G3$270
- AVVIGO Guidance System$266
- COMET$150
- Micra$147
- AVEIR$131
- Indigo System$130
- OptiCross 6$125
- SYNERGY$111
- CAMZYOS$106
- Perclose ProStyle$105
How this compares
$13,390 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 223 interventional cardiology providers in Arizona.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 12 | $3,263 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 51 | $272 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 24 | $101 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Yuma
- Paul SorajjaPhoenix$8.8M
- Thomas WaggonerTucson$4.1M
- Hursh NaikAvondale$2.2M
- Nabil DibGilbert$2.2M
- Timothy ByrnePhoenix$2.1M
- Ashish PershadChandler$1.4M
- Mohamad LazkaniPhoenix$1.1M
- Parminder SinghPhoenix$854K
- Samuel ButmanCottonwood$706K
- Ajay TuliTucson$705K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.