Cristina Sanina, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Metairie, LANPI 1497204291
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 128 payments — averaging $116.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Abiomed$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$551
- plus $3K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$1,1268%
- Travel & lodging$4,99434%
- Food & beverage$8,58558%
- Education$1501%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 33 | $4,928 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $2,597 |
| Abbott | 22 | $1,631 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $1,112 |
| Medtronic | 17 | $1,112 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $551 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $355 |
| Amgen | 7 | $341 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $332 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $238 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $231 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $173 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $169 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 3 | $136 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $126 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $123 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $102 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $18 |
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.
- PASCAL$1,721
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$1,215
- EVOQUE$661
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$554
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$332
- OPTIS$298
- Impella$281
- Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$259
- Repatha$249
- AlphaVac$241
- MitraClip$176
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$173
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$173
- AMPLATZER AMULET$167
- RESOLUTE ONYX$149
- Diamondback Coronary$148
- NEXLIZET$148
- NEXLETOL$148
- Resolute$138
- Edora$137
How this compares
$14,855 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 171 interventional cardiology providers in Louisiana.
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 interventional cardiology in Metairie
- Craig WalkerHouma$5.5M
- Naseem JaffraniAlexandria$5.1M
- Mark NapoliMonroe$2.2M
- Stephen RameeNew Orleans$1.5M
- Denzil MoraesBaton Rouge$1.4M
- James JenkinsNew Orleans$1.2M
- Ankur LodhaLafayette$945K
- Rajan PatelNew Orleans$633K
- Bruce EnnisMandeville$562K
- Jorge CastellanosBaton Rouge$561K
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.