Kinan Kassar, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Zanesville, OHNPI 1902292907
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 233 payments — averaging $57.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Amgen$618
- AstraZeneca$340
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,96637%
- Food & beverage$7,81558%
- Education$6175%
- Gifts$560%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 35 | $3,600 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 24 | $2,371 |
| Boston Scientific | 23 | $2,057 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 24 | $2,014 |
| Amgen | 27 | $618 |
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $340 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 5 | $273 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 8 | $268 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 6 | $178 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 5 | $169 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 6 | $161 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $161 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 7 | $129 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $111 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $109 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $107 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $106 |
| Novartis | 5 | $94 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Stryker | 2 | $52 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $47 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| GSK | 1 | $15 |
| American Regent | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,395
- OPTIS$1,113
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,088
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$998
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$402
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$223
- CoreValve Evolut$152
- WATCHMAN FLX$149
- Resolute$140
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$126
- Diamondback Coronary$124
- XIENCE SKYPOINT$119
- Indigo System$117
- Watchman$116
- Repatha$111
- JARDIANCE$106
- FARXIGA$106
- GENERAL - STENTS$104
How this compares
$13,455 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 256 interventional cardiology providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 69 | $63,320 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 63 | $45,705 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 60 | $44,152 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 24 | $31,594 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 12 | $21,549 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 13 | $10,865 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 277 | $2,412 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 211 | $1,602 |
| Ezetimibe | 37 | $1,407 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 22 | $1,238 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 77 | $828 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 119 | $552 |
| Carvedilol | 95 | $548 |
| Losartan Potassium | 56 | $338 |
| Furosemide | 64 | $319 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $111 | $63,32069 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $106 | $44,15260 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $94 | $21,54912 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $340 | $10,86513 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 256 interventional cardiology providers in Ohio.
Other interventional cardiology in Zanesville
- Abdulhay AlbiriniZanesville$238K
- Santiago GarciaCincinnati$3.6M
- Gary AnselColumbus$3.4M
- Dean KereiakesCincinnati$3.4M
- Steven YakubovColumbus$3.2M
- Joseph ChooCincinnati$1.9M
- Carlos Sanchez SotoColumbus$1.7M
- John CheathamColumbus$1.7M
- Brendan DuffyCanton$1.5M
- Timothy HenryCincinnati$1.3M
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.