Has Giovanni Davogustto Cataldo, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $41,870 in general payments to Giovanni Davogustto Cataldo, MD across 176 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 Giovanni Davogustto Cataldo, 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 Giovanni Davogustto Cataldo, 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.

Giovanni Davogustto Cataldo, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Nashville, TNNPI 1497000780

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — grants (51.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 46.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $23,591 and has fallen 77.4% since, to $5,337 in 2025.

$41,870in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 176 payments — averaging $237.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$20K
Medtronic$15K
Abbott$5K
Biotronik Inc.$2K
Philips North America LLC$1K
Baxter Healthcare$149
plus $47 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1,2003%
Grants$21,66752%
Travel & lodging$8,94321%
Food & beverage$9,50623%
Education$5541%

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
Boston Scientific	31	$19,583
Medtronic	78	$14,514
Abbott	33	$4,536
Biotronik Inc.	27	$1,607
Philips North America LLC	3	$1,433
Baxter Healthcare	1	$149
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$27
Shockwave Medical, Inc	1	$20

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.

EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$15,000
GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,572
Micra$1,533
EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$1,235
ECG Adapters$1,200
ENSITE PRECISION$1,180
ENSITE$1,134
AVEIR$835
WATCHMAN Access System$732
COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$279
AMPLATZER AMULET$279
AVVIGO Guidance System$152
(9124) LM Undivided$150
Hillrom - Cardiac Ambulatory Monitor$149
AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$129

How this compares

$41,870 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 82 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$45,760

Medicare patients

Services billed

209

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
Metoprolol Succinate	14	$271
Omeprazole	15	$103
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	12	$55

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Sean WhalenNashville$149K
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Robert PickettNashville$95K
Robert JonesNashville$57K
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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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