Amar Krishnaswamy, MD
Internal Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1740487024
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $25,889 of the $39,692 with a category attached, or 65.2%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 42.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $13,342 and has fallen 78.7% since, to $2,845 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in OH 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 248 payments — averaging $160.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$17K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$9K
- Abbott$8K
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$586
- Medtronic$290
- plus $325 from 4 others
Across 121 payments — averaging $4233.16 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.
- Abbott$173K
- Edwards Lifesciences$165K
- Boston Scientific$152K
- Recor Medical Inc$22K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,8005%
- Travel & lodging$25,88965%
- Food & beverage$12,00330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 132 | $17,010 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 9 | $9,483 |
| Abbott | 58 | $8,192 |
| Boston Scientific | 37 | $3,806 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 3 | $586 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $290 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $150 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$6,079
- MitraClip$1,388
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$910
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$848
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$843
- Mitra Clip system$749
- Tendyne Mitral Valve System$681
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$630
- Carto 3$532
- AMPLATZER$258
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$241
- PASCAL$168
- NAVITOR$158
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$154
- SIR-Spheres Microspheres$150
- CP STENT$131
- VersaCross Access Solution$119
- Watchman$116
How this compares
$39,692 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.
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 | 134 | $120,662 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 56 | $52,400 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 27 | $21,964 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 18 | $17,274 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 159 | $2,067 |
| Ezetimibe | 23 | $1,987 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 86 | $960 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 79 | $889 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 60 | $738 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 15 | $349 |
| Nitroglycerin | 21 | $345 |
| Lisinopril | 69 | $285 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 57 | $256 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 49 | $224 |
| Furosemide | 99 | $198 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Cleveland
- Cyrus HarrisCleveland$726K
- Marina MagreyCleveland$312K
- Joshua LonginowCleveland$241K
- Emad MansoorCleveland$219K
- Syed BukhariCleveland$165K
- Vadim KoshkinCleveland$159K
- Suresh Kumar BalasubramanianCleveland$148K
- Christine Tanaka-EspositoCleveland$123K
- Carla HarwellCleveland$75K
- Amr MohamedCleveland$72K
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.