Gaurav Upadhyay
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Chicago, ILNPI 1306973748
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,034 payments — averaging $758.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotronik Inc.$312K
- Medtronic$202K
- Boston Scientific$102K
- Abbott$71K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$23K
- Cvrx, Inc.$23K
- plus $51K from 16 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $875.00 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$1K
- Biotronik Inc.$750
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$56,43210%
- Speaking & faculty fees$212,14036%
- Grants$251,40842%
- Travel & lodging$46,6378%
- Food & beverage$26,3424%
- Education$580%
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. | 243 | $312,204 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 459 | $202,037 |
| Boston Scientific | 102 | $102,166 |
| Abbott | 108 | $70,891 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 26 | $23,421 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 24 | $23,006 |
| GE HealthCare | 3 | $18,244 |
| Philips North America LLC | 11 | $17,333 |
| ZOLL Respicardia, Inc. | 9 | $10,890 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 25 | $1,721 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $1,188 |
| Acutus Medical, Inc. | 2 | $690 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $234 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $130 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $122 |
| Microport CRM USA Inc | 1 | $101 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $93 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $62 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 4 | $35 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Solia$253,274
- Rivacor 7 DR-T$127,480
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$127,480
- Acticor$125,793
- Edora$125,793
- Rivacor$125,793
- Enitra$125,000
- Edora 8 DR-T$89,000
- LifeVest$23,000
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$19,230
- INGEVITY MRI$18,265
- SelectSecure$17,904
- (82) Healthcare Innovation$8,403
- (2858) General Consulting$6,624
- Micra$6,564
- ENSITE$6,191
- Architect system$5,351
- Agilis NxT EP Introducer$5,000
- Assurity Pacemaker$4,960
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$4,400
How this compares
$784,726 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 80 | $87,542 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 25 | $27,552 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 16 | $12,597 |
| Dofetilide | 29 | $5,260 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 250 | $4,899 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 49 | $1,287 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 12 | $394 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 14 | $359 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 13 | $342 |
| Carvedilol | 26 | $117 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 21 | $27 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $122 | $87,54280 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 95th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Chicago
- Roderick TungChicago$2.3M
- Bradley KnightChicago$1.6M
- Albert LinChicago$486K
- Hany DemoChicago$297K
- Nishant VermaChicago$281K
- Martin BurkeChicago$268K
- Susan KimChicago$206K
- Rishi AroraChicago$162K
- Alexander MazurChicago$161K
- Arjun MehtaChicago$152K
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.