Ashish Khanna, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1356662084
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.2%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 25.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $98,007 and has fallen 70.1% since, to $29,293 in 2025. Among critical care medicine clinicians in NC 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 234 payments — averaging $1553.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$92K
- Edwards Lifesciences$81K
- Covidien LP$75K
- Philips North America LLC$40K
- Trevena, Inc.$14K
- Baxter Healthcare$13K
- plus $48K from 15 others
Across 112 payments — averaging $14,610 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$1.1M
- Trevena, Inc.$471K
- Novartis$35K
- AstraZeneca$33K
- Philips North America LLC$20K
- Masimo Corporation$14K
- plus $2K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$189,88452%
- Speaking & faculty fees$161,67444%
- Travel & lodging$5,6742%
- Food & beverage$4,3881%
- Education$1760%
- Other$1,7600%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 84 | $91,954 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 43 | $80,974 |
| Covidien LP | 24 | $75,475 |
| Philips North America LLC | 25 | $40,287 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 6 | $14,299 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $12,750 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 9 | $11,752 |
| Mylan Inc. | 3 | $9,319 |
| GE HealthCare | 4 | $7,217 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 13 | $6,477 |
| Merck | 1 | $3,500 |
| ZOLL Medical Corporation | 5 | $3,191 |
| BD | 6 | $2,905 |
| BTG International Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. | 1 | $1,280 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $450 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Abiomed | 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.
- Nellcor$27,212
- Respiratory$22,550
- GIAPREZA$15,299
- Olinvyk$14,229
- BIOBUTTON$7,780
- (2858) General Consulting$6,600
- INVOS$5,754
- (1439) HPM Undiv$5,544
- Microstream$4,932
- Capnostream20p$3,288
- (0054) Support function$2,640
- (DR9) Surveillance License$2,640
- MCGRATH MAC$2,640
- HemoSphere$2,146
- Bair Hugger$450
- SpotOn$450
- V.A.C. DERMATAC$450
- PROMOGRAN PRISMA$450
- Pressure Tranducers$400
- IPS - Liquid Premix$350
How this compares
$363,556 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 190 critical care medicine providers in North Carolina.
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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 critical care medicine in Winston Salem
- Hassan YousafWinston Salem$97K
- Farhan AhmedWinston Salem$17K
- Benjamin BregmanWinston Salem$11K
- Jason ThomasonWinston Salem$7K
- Sean MurphyWinston Salem$6K
- David DefeoWinston Salem$6K
- Romel GobunsuyWinston Salem$2K
- Philip KeithWinston Salem$2K
- Blair BrownWinston Salem$2K
- Gregory RossWinston Salem$2K
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.