Gopinath Upamaka
Cardiovascular Disease · Toledo, OHNPI 1750385670
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 112 payments — averaging $1232.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Livanova USA, Inc.$108K
- Merck$21K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$5K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$280
- Abbott$229
- plus $207 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,51880%
- Travel & lodging$7528%
- Food & beverage$1,08412%
- Education$50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 36 | $107,567 |
| Merck | 7 | $21,106 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 13 | $4,831 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 10 | $3,812 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 19 | $280 |
| Abbott | 15 | $229 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $42 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $41 |
| Novartis | 2 | $34 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $27 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 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.
- PRALUENT$8,068
How this compares
$138,033 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.
Other cardiovascular disease in Toledo
- Paul BerlacherToledo$317K
- Samer KhouriToledo$312K
- Samir KapadiaCleveland$11.1M
- Steven NissenCleveland$5.3M
- Milind DesaiCleveland$5M
- Abraham LincoffCleveland$3.6M
- Carlos HubbardCleveland$3.1M
- Guilherme AttizzaniCleveland$2.8M
- Wai Hong TangCleveland$2.2M
- Bhola RamaMarion$2.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.