Chava Chezar-Azerrad
Interventional Cardiology · Lanham, MDNPI 1366905366
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 102 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 9.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,178, 2.6 times the $461 reported in 2022. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in MD, where the typical reported total is $7,370.
Across 102 payments — averaging $33.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$323
- Novartis$312
- Edwards Lifesciences$300
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$244
- Pfizer$228
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$189
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,420100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 3 | $323 |
| Novartis | 16 | $312 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $300 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 5 | $244 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $228 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 7 | $189 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $170 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $169 |
| Amgen | 2 | $148 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 7 | $139 |
| Abbott | 1 | $138 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $124 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 3 | $113 |
| Merck | 6 | $104 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $102 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $97 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $89 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $65 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $40 |
| Bayer | 2 | $35 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $16 |
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
$3,420 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 71 interventional cardiology providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 12 | $366 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $240 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 15 | $168 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 30 | $168 |
| Furosemide | 30 | $124 |
| Carvedilol | 17 | $122 |
| Losartan Potassium | 21 | $109 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Lanham
- Rajendra ShettyLanham$9K
- Vinay SatwahGreenbelt$679K
- Aloke FinnBaltimore$575K
- Michael ChenRockville$241K
- John WangBaltimore$138K
- Steven HearneSalisbury$100K
- Amir NajafiBel Air$82K
- Diljon ChahalBaltimore$78K
- Joseph CinderellaSalisbury$72K
- Ali TabrizchiBel Air$66K
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.