Ali Irshad
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Nashville, TNNPI 1548608219
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (41.4%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Inari Medical, Inc. at 31.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,070 and has fallen 94.5% since, to $333 in 2025.
Across 180 payments — averaging $111.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inari Medical, Inc.$6K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Bolton Medical Inc$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Philips North America LLC$1K
- plus $5K from 21 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $25,000 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.
- Conmed Corporation$50K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,51217%
- Travel & lodging$8,32641%
- Food & beverage$7,59438%
- Education$6553%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 50 | $6,406 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 7 | $2,493 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 16 | $2,199 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 17 | $1,868 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 9 | $1,155 |
| Philips North America LLC | 8 | $1,041 |
| Abbott | 9 | $749 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 10 | $651 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $635 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $542 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $358 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $325 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 4 | $256 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $169 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 2 | $147 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $136 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $125 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $99 |
| Centerline Biomedical Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $84 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $50 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$4,951
- Indigo$4,715
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$2,958
- FlowTriever$1,393
- ClotTriever$1,393
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$967
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$967
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$816
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$816
- Grafts$812
- IGT D Peripheral$800
- PASCAL$797
- Relay Grafts$545
- ENSITE$273
- ENSITE PRECISION$245
- IN.PACT Admiral$152
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$150
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$150
- Perceval$150
- LUTONIX$146
How this compares
$20,087 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 115 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Tennessee.
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Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Nashville
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- Clayton KaiserNashville$124K
- Sreekumar SubramanianNashville$98K
- Erin GillaspieNashville$95K
- Amber EdwardsNashville$83K
- Caitlin DemarestNashville$33K
- Henry ToddNashville$28K
- Swaroop BommareddiNashville$26K
- Brian LimaNashville$18K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.