Akshu Balwan
Critical Care Medicine · Farmington, NMNPI 1831404136
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $30,000 of the $46,577 with a category attached, or 64.4%. Boston Scientific accounts for 67.0% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $15,680 and has fallen 87.8% since, to $1,916 in 2025. Among critical care medicine clinicians in NM with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 82 payments — averaging $568.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$31K
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Noah Medical Corporation$956
- Pulmonx Corporation$365
- plus $374 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$30,00064%
- Travel & lodging$8,01517%
- Food & beverage$2,5545%
- Education$6,00013%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 6 | $31,204 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 35 | $9,068 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $2,669 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $1,942 |
| Noah Medical Corporation | 4 | $956 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 4 | $365 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 4 | $281 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 2 | $55 |
| Stryker | 1 | $24 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, 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.
- GENERAL - BILIARY DEVICES$30,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$4,751
- ION$3,000
- Monarch Platform$1,691
- MONARCH$1,552
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,135
- DA VINCI SP$374
- CHARTIS CATHETER$147
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$147
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$147
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$147
- Spiration Valve System$131
- SVS$100
How this compares
$46,577 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 32 critical care medicine providers in New Mexico.
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.
Other critical care medicine in Farmington
- Patricia HoganFarmington$34
- Michael PatzFarmington$20
- Jeffrey MazerAlbuquerque$10K
- Staci LogueAlbuquerque$2K
- Denise GonzalesAlbuquerque$1K
- Tyler ShackelfordAlbuquerque$1K
- Lucie GriffinAlbuquerque$746
- Nathan NielsenAlbuquerque$720
- Michel BoivinAlbuquerque$662
- Jennifer VergeerAlbuquerque$609
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.