Chad Mao
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Atlanta, GANPI 1548262967
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,056 of the $3,294 with a category attached, or 62.4%. Abbott accounts for 85.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,040 and has fallen 85.6% since, to $294 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $8,076.
Across 34 payments — averaging $96.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Merck$249
- Medtronic$113
- Boston Scientific$77
- One Lambda, Inc.$30
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$27
Across 24 payments — averaging $53,681 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.
- Novartis$1.1M
- Merck$144K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,05662%
- Food & beverage$1,23838%
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 | 21 | $2,798 |
| Merck | 5 | $249 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $113 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $77 |
| One Lambda, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $27 |
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.
- AVEIR$1,836
- CardioMEMS HF System$332
- ENSITE$174
How this compares
$3,294 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 40 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Georgia.
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Other advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in Atlanta
- Robert ColeAtlanta$213K
- Rahul LounganiAtlanta$51K
- Arun KrishnamoorthyAtlanta$37K
- Benjamin DemossAtlanta$17K
- Mehrdad ToosiAtlanta$15K
- Brenda HottAtlanta$8K
- Divya GuptaAtlanta$8K
- Kunal BhattAtlanta$6K
- Mahmoud AbdouAtlanta$4K
- Sonjoy LaskarAtlanta$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.