Eileen Gajo
Cardiovascular Disease · Evanston, ILNPI 1083091946
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $31,000 of the $36,489 with a category attached, or 85.0%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 58.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $33,043 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $2,027 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 84 payments — averaging $434.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$21K
- Abbott$11K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$462
- Boston Scientific$443
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$227
- plus $911 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$31,00085%
- Travel & lodging$1,0863%
- Food & beverage$4,30212%
- Education$1010%
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 | 10 | $21,360 |
| Abbott | 13 | $10,661 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 28 | $2,425 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $462 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $443 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $227 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $174 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $60 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $55 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $53 |
| Opsens Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Amgen | 2 | $31 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $31 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $22 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$21,146
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$748
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$441
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$426
- COROFLOW$279
- AVVIGO Guidance System$264
- FFRct$174
- Carto 3$168
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$153
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$153
- NAVITOR$152
- Diamondback Coronary$142
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$101
How this compares
$36,489 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.
Other cardiovascular disease in Evanston
- Amit PursnaniEvanston$115K
- Nikhil NarangEvanston$114K
- Jamil DihuEvanston$83K
- Sandeep NathanChicago$892K
- Alan BrownNaperville$858K
- Azmey MatariehElgin$762K
- Jay AlexanderBannockburn$744K
- Niraj VarmaMaywood$522K
- Boaz AvitallChicago$366K
- Akhil NarangChicago$363K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.