Has John Cheatham received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,436,908 in general payments to John Cheatham across 1,113 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 John Cheatham 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 John Cheatham 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.

John Cheatham

Interventional Cardiology · Columbus, OHNPI 1114926680

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $933,982 of the $1,436,908 with a category attached, or 65.0%. Medtronic accounts for 85.3% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $460,921 and has fallen 76.1% since, to $110,116 in 2025. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,436,908in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,113 payments — averaging $1291.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$1.2M
Numed For Children, LLC$210K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc.$297

$356,266in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 79 payments — averaging $4509.69 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$356K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$226,42516%
Speaking & faculty fees$933,98265%
Travel & lodging$260,73818%
Food & beverage$15,7631%

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(2 entities)	1,103	$1,225,037
Numed For Children, LLC	7	$210,000
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$1,575
B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc.	2	$297

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.

How this compares

$1,436,908 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 256 interventional cardiology providers in Ohio.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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