Has Anita Asgar received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $85,033 in general payments to Anita Asgar across 155 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Anita Asgar did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Anita Asgar come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Anita Asgar

Interventional Cardiology · Chicago, ILNPI 1588481022

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $52,766 of the $85,033 with a category attached, or 62.1%. Abbott accounts for 69.0% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$85,033in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 155 payments — averaging $548.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$59K
Medtronic$15K
Edwards Lifesciences$8K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
Boston Scientific$201
Philips North America LLC$193
plus $346 from 4 others

$30,690in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $7672.55 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.

Edwards Lifesciences$19K
Abbott$12K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$52,76662%
Speaking & faculty fees$15,05018%
Grants$950%
Travel & lodging$11,52214%
Food & beverage$5,5647%
Education$350%

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
Abbott	63	$58,656
Medtronic	32	$15,439
Edwards Lifesciences	40	$7,660
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	5	$2,537
Boston Scientific	5	$201
Philips North America LLC	3	$193
Teleflex LLC	2	$177
Atricure, Inc.	2	$105
Stryker	2	$47
Cordis US CORP.	1	$18

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.

MitraClip$34,362
NAVITOR$20,830
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$14,656
TRICLIP$2,145
SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$1,743
Product in Development$1,560
GORE CARDIOFORM ASD Occluder$669
GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$237
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$170
(9148) ICE 3D$145
PASCAL$106
MANTA$104
APOLLOTM$101

How this compares

$85,033 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 303 interventional cardiology providers in Illinois.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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