Klaus Rentrop
Nuclear Cardiology · New York, NYNPI 1194723601
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $5,633,969 of the $5,634,199 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Philips North America LLC accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,186,684 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $192 in 2021. Among nuclear cardiology clinicians in NY 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.
Across 16 payments — averaging $352,137 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Philips North America LLC$5.6M
- Abbott$68
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$38
- Novo Nordisk$37
- Johnson & Johnson$22
- Merck$18
- plus $46 from 3 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $110,000 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.
- Bracco Diagnostics Inc.$110K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$5,633,969100%
- Food & beverage$2300%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Philips North America LLC | 6 | $5,633,969 |
| Abbott | 1 | $68 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $38 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $12 |
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.
- ELCA$5,633,969
How this compares
$5,634,199 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 21 nuclear cardiology providers in New York.
Other nuclear cardiology in New York
- Jonathan WeinsaftNew York$10K
- Harout YacoubNew York$2K
- Margarita ChernovolenkoNew York$637
- Van-Hong NguyenNew York$99
- Lynne JohnsonNew York$59
- Kenneth LeeNew York$58
- Diwakar JainHawthorne$105K
- John AsheldWest Islip$24K
- Brian RiegelWilliamsville$23K
- Wilbur AsheldWest Islip$11K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.