Amir Karimian, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Norfolk, VANPI 1871908616
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,697 of the $4,400 with a category attached, or 84.0%. It is spread thinly across 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,296 and has fallen 85.4% since, to $334 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $4,743.
Across 55 payments — averaging $80.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$961
- Abbott$577
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$530
- Abiomed$469
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$389
- Boston Scientific$367
- plus $1K from 10 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $75.00 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.
- Abiomed$150
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$70216%
- Food & beverage$3,69784%
- Education$10%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 10 | $961 |
| Abbott | 5 | $577 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $530 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $469 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $389 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $367 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 4 | $226 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $173 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $142 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 2 | $132 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $115 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $104 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $17 |
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$680
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$480
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$365
- Impella$252
- MitraClip$241
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$210
- Diamondback Coronary$173
- Diamondback Peripheral$173
- AMPLATZER$163
- Unify Assura CRT Defibrillator$159
- Asahi Coronary Wires$158
- Azur CX Detachable$142
- OPTICROSS$125
- Carnation Ambulatory Monitor$117
- WATCHMAN Access System$106
- CHOCOLATE$101
How this compares
$4,400 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 176 interventional cardiology providers in Virginia.
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 interventional cardiology in Norfolk
- Matthew SummersNorfolk$308K
- Ilhwan YeoNorfolk$18K
- Paul LavigneNorfolk$14K
- Mark EastNorfolk$10K
- Deepak TalrejaVirginia Beach$1.5M
- Rajiv TayalFredericksburg$984K
- Gansevoort DunningtonRichmond$440K
- Noah JonesFalls Church$238K
- Michael GenVirginia Beach$207K
- Jeremy BockLeesburg$202K
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.