Has Dennis Zhu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,276 in general payments to Dennis Zhu, MD across 82 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Dennis Zhu, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Dennis Zhu, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Dennis Zhu, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Saint Paul, MNNPI 1558338699

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $8,530 of the $12,276 with a category attached, or 69.5%. 3 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotronik Inc. at 55.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,005, 3.0 times the $1,662 reported in 2019.

$12,276in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 82 payments — averaging $149.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Biotronik Inc.$7K
Medtronic$5K
Atricure, Inc.$17

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$8,53069%
Food & beverage$3,74531%

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
Biotronik Inc.	42	$6,817
Medtronic(2 entities)	39	$5,441
Atricure, Inc.	1	$17

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.

Arctic Front$1,011
DIAMONDTEMP BIDIRECTIONAL ABLATION CATHETER$779
ARCTIC FRONT ADVANCE$287
Acticor 7 VR-T DX$210
BioMonitor$106
Edora 8 DR-T$106
Rivacor 7 DR-T$106

How this compares

$12,276 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$120,963

Medicare patients

1,048

Services billed

1,966

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
EliquisApixaban	164	$204,059
XareltoRivaroxaban	44	$61,356
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	11	$16,590
Flecainide Acetate	160	$6,378
SotalolSotalol Hcl	168	$3,863
Metoprolol Succinate	141	$2,269
Amiodarone Hcl	100	$2,013
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	47	$1,447
Carvedilol	13	$195
Metoprolol Tartrate	15	$149

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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