Daniel Burkhoff
Saddlebrook, NJNPI 1386923332
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $730,388 of the $989,671 with a category attached, or 73.8%. Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. accounts for 61.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $324,137 and has fallen 55.0% since, to $145,914 in 2025.
Across 330 payments — averaging $2999.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$608K
- Abiomed$198K
- Opsens Inc.$72K
- Edwards Lifesciences$29K
- Sensible Medical Innovations Ltd$24K
- Boston Scientific$22K
- plus $36K from 7 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $148.90 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.
- Medtronic$375
- Abiomed$221
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$730,38874%
- Speaking & faculty fees$181,80918%
- Travel & lodging$68,8227%
- Food & beverage$8,6521%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 85 | $608,242 |
| Abiomed | 136 | $198,016 |
| Opsens Inc. | 1 | $72,006 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 35 | $29,339 |
| Sensible Medical Innovations Ltd | 2 | $24,064 |
| Boston Scientific | 27 | $21,849 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $17,484 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 11 | $10,611 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 1 | $6,000 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $1,590 |
| Abbott | 3 | $364 |
| Novartis | 1 | $79 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $26 |
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.
- OPTIMIZER$933,572
- OPTIMIZER SMART SYSTEM$120,334
- OptoWire$72,006
- Impella$62,471
- ReDS system$24,000
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$8,750
- LifeSPARC$6,945
- TandemHeart$6,945
- Vitalyst$4,208
- TandemLife$2,670
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$1,875
- SELUTION SLR PTA$1,590
- CoreValve Evolut$1,477
- TMVR$657
- Tandem Heart Kit$262
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3$151
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$116
- Micra$102
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.