Balaji Krishnan, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · St Louis Park, MNNPI 1477784288
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $4,725 of the $5,488 with a category attached, or 86.1%. Medtronic accounts for 98.3% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in MN, where the typical reported total is $10,629.
Across 17 payments — averaging $322.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$59
- Abbott$33
Across 41 payments — averaging $21,770 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.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$893K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,72586%
- Travel & lodging$3787%
- Food & beverage$3857%
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(2 entities) | 15 | $5,395 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Abbott | 1 | $33 |
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.
- Percepta$450
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$239
- Claria MRI$225
- Amplia MRI$142
- Micra$138
How this compares
$5,488 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 72 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Minnesota.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 80 | $103,783 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 25 | $32,820 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 63 | $2,691 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 133 | $2,502 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 82 | $2,240 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 42 | $836 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 16 | $233 |
| Furosemide | 28 | $208 |
| Losartan Potassium | 11 | $109 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in St Louis Park
- Neeraj SathnurSt Louis Park$17K
- Samuel AsirvathamRochester$1M
- John SchoenhardSt Cloud$210K
- Daniel MelbyMinneapolis$94K
- Suraj KapaRochester$92K
- David HayesRochester$86K
- Paul FriedmanRochester$83K
- Keith LurieSt Cloud$74K
- Vy JocsonRobbinsdale$64K
- Venkatakrishna TholakanahalliMinneapolis$62K
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.