Krishna Pundi
Internal Medicine · Stanford, CANPI 1891158200
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 183 payments — averaging $228.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$24K
- Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$6K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$5K
- Abbott$3K
- Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- plus $1K from 5 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $750.00 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.
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,12524%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2501%
- Grants$22,91755%
- Travel & lodging$1,9445%
- Food & beverage$6,32915%
- Education$3291%
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 | 17 | $23,684 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 7 | $6,357 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 66 | $4,898 |
| Abbott | 39 | $3,075 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $1,586 |
| Boston Scientific | 41 | $1,124 |
| EBR Systems, Inc. | 2 | $412 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 6 | $373 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $250 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $107 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
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.
- ZIO XT Patch$6,233
- AVEIR$1,921
- Sotalol Hydrochloride$1,500
- Carto 3$726
- MULTAQ$250
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$244
- NUVISION ICE CATHETER$172
- AMVIA EDGE$154
- ENSITE$144
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$135
- Soundstar$119
- LINQ II$112
- LifeVest$107
How this compares
$41,895 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Stanford
- Christian EversullStanford$2.9M
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Helen StaceyWalnut Creek$20.4M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
- Zeid KayaliColton$14.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.