Deepthi Sudhakar, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Chula Vista, CANPI 1811307051
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 519 payments — averaging $60.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$9K
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Medtronic$3K
- Abiomed$2K
- plus $7K from 35 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,61415%
- Food & beverage$26,75885%
- Education$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 152 | $9,485 |
| Boston Scientific | 56 | $3,588 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 43 | $3,390 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 32 | $3,023 |
| Medtronic | 38 | $2,998 |
| Abiomed | 27 | $2,044 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 17 | $894 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 12 | $663 |
| Amgen | 23 | $570 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 15 | $471 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 3 | $454 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 10 | $418 |
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $322 |
| Verge Medical, Inc. | 2 | $292 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $280 |
| AOP Health US, LLC | 1 | $260 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $246 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 8 | $241 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $175 |
| Novartis | 8 | $173 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 4 | $154 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $148 |
| Philips North America LLC | 8 | $142 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $140 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 7 | $120 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $48 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $43 |
| Bayer | 2 | $41 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $23 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Merck | 1 | $21 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$2,602
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$2,068
- CardioMEMS HF System$1,638
- ONYX FRONTIER$1,578
- Impella$1,132
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$1,102
- XIENCE SIERRA$858
- Rapiblyk$521
- FFRct$454
- AVVIGO Guidance System$438
- FLASH Ostial System$292
- OPTIS$289
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$280
- RESOLUTE ONYX$276
- WATCHMAN FLX$264
- VersaCross Access Solution$261
- Asahi Coronary Wires$256
- Xience Sierra Coronary Stent System$237
- WATCHMAN Access System$226
- Cardiva VASCADE MVP VVCS 6-12F$221
How this compares
$31,393 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 106 | $55,144 |
| EliquisApixaban | 75 | $39,625 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 44 | $33,818 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 39 | $12,839 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 125 | $10,742 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 198 | $1,919 |
| Carvedilol | 242 | $1,221 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 152 | $1,171 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 70 | $1,080 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 129 | $1,024 |
| Ezetimibe | 27 | $794 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 85 | $523 |
| Nitroglycerin | 47 | $469 |
| Losartan Potassium | 54 | $437 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 27 | $391 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $148 | $55,144106 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $43 | $39,62575 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.
Other interventional cardiology in Chula Vista
- Mehran MoussavianChula Vista$1.6M
- Rajendra MakkarWest Hollywood$16.6M
- Fahed BitarCovina$9.9M
- Rahul SharmaStanford$6.6M
- Matthew Pricela Jolla$5.8M
- David LeeStanford$5.7M
- Saibal KarThousand Oaks$5.4M
- Mehrdad ArianiNorthridge$5M
- Frederick St GoarMountain View$4.2M
- Sammy ElmariahSan Francisco$4.2M
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.