Kareem Niazi, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Colonial Heights, VANPI 1578980728
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 117 payments — averaging $71.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Abbott$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Abiomed$1K
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$391
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$238
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$1,10513%
- Travel & lodging$1,32816%
- Food & beverage$5,32964%
- Education$6308%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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) | 26 | $2,529 |
| Abbott | 21 | $1,487 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $1,288 |
| Abiomed | 14 | $1,107 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 4 | $391 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $238 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 4 | $137 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $122 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $120 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $96 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $93 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $88 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $62 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $56 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $34 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $27 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $24 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Stryker | 1 | $22 |
| Novartis | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL$1,105
- TurboHawk$862
- SYMPLICITY G3$435
- Diamondback Coronary$333
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$213
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$169
- CardioMEMS HF System$149
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$144
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$144
- NAVITOR$137
- Assure WCD$136
- Fast-Cath Standard Introducer$134
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$128
- Impella$122
- CARDIOMEMS$119
- OPTIS$110
- XIENCE SKYPOINT$107
- AMPLATZER$107
- IN.PACT Admiral$106
- Resolute$106
How this compares
$8,392 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 176 interventional cardiology providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 35 | $239 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $121 |
| Spironolactone | 12 | $74 |
| Losartan Potassium | 16 | $67 |
| Furosemide | 24 | $45 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 11 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Colonial Heights
- Gauravpal Singh GillColonial Heights$13K
- Deepak TalrejaVirginia Beach$2M
- Rajiv TayalFredericksburg$2M
- Michael RagostaCharlottesville$1M
- Jason FoerstRoanoke$956K
- Noah JonesFalls Church$907K
- John SaxonCharlottesville$900K
- Wayne BatchelorFalls Church$723K
- Matthew SummersNorfolk$614K
- Matthew SherwoodFalls Church$512K
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.