Jonathan Menachem, MD
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Nashville, TNNPI 1245556554
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $52,119 of the $78,594 with a category attached, or 66.3%. Abbott accounts for 71.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $20,974 and has fallen 89.2% since, to $2,255 in 2025. Among advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in TN 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 238 payments — averaging $330.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$56K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$9K
- Medtronic$8K
- Abiomed$5K
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$212
- Cvrx, Inc.$74
- plus $16 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,32411%
- Speaking & faculty fees$52,11966%
- Travel & lodging$10,45813%
- Food & beverage$7,69310%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 188 | $56,180 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 13 | $9,476 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $7,550 |
| Abiomed | 16 | $5,086 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 5 | $212 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$24,213
- CARDIOMEMS$12,675
- LifeVest$9,350
- HeartWare HVAD$6,900
- Impella$4,951
- ENSITE$4,902
- CardioMEMS HF System$3,624
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$3,200
- ENSITE PRECISION$1,844
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$1,422
- GALLANT$245
- HeartMate$102
How this compares
$78,594 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 28 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Tennessee.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 25 | $48,188 |
| EliquisApixaban | 17 | $20,872 |
| Carvedilol | 16 | $213 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 15 | $177 |
| Spironolactone | 12 | $105 |
| Furosemide | 11 | $68 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 16 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in Nashville
- Richa GuptaNashville$46K
- Matthew DeshazoNashville$38K
- Lynne StevensonNashville$25K
- Warren StriblingNashville$23K
- Mark AaronNashville$13K
- John BiglaneNashville$9K
- Jeremy BrooksbankNashville$9K
- Ashley BockNashville$8K
- Zachary Il'giovineNashville$6K
- Andrew McRaeNashville$3K
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.