Ari Cedars, MD
Adult Congenital Heart Disease · Baltimore, MDNPI 1376645937
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 25 payments — averaging $667.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$14K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$43
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$21
- Philips North America LLC$18
- plus $12 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50048%
- Travel & lodging$46315%
- Food & beverage$1,15237%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $13,567 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $1,960 |
| Abbott | 12 | $1,062 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $43 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $21 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
Too few adult congenital heart disease providers in Marylandto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 | 88 | $57,473 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 22 | $18,736 |
| Eplerenone | 17 | $1,142 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 104 | $1,126 |
| Ezetimibe | 12 | $570 |
| Torsemide | 17 | $401 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 42 | $359 |
| Spironolactone | 62 | $312 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 38 | $276 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 19 | $267 |
| Chlorthalidone | 17 | $264 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 12 | $143 |
| Losartan Potassium | 18 | $108 |
| Carvedilol | 29 | $108 |
| Lisinopril | 17 | $86 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult congenital heart disease in Baltimore
- Lisa ForbessBaltimore$1K
- Stacy FisherWestminster$111K
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.