Has Lalit Wadhwani, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $72,598 in general payments to Lalit Wadhwani, MD across 211 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Lalit Wadhwani, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Lalit Wadhwani, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Lalit Wadhwani, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Chicago, ILNPI 1184065765

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $52,375 of the $72,598 with a category attached, or 72.1%. Medtronic accounts for 61.3% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $37,120 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $403 in 2025.

$72,598in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 211 payments — averaging $344.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$45K
Biotronik Inc.$14K
Boston Scientific$8K
Abbott$3K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$2K
Atricure, Inc.$124
plus $8 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Grants$52,37572%
Travel & lodging$12,94518%
Food & beverage$7,07610%
Education$2010%

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)	54	$44,509
Biotronik Inc.	36	$13,647
Boston Scientific	17	$8,466
Abbott	70	$3,429
Biosense Webster, Inc.	31	$2,416
Atricure, Inc.	2	$124
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$8

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 BRADY$5,500
GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,527
Acticor 7 VR-T DX$2,317
Rivacor 7 DR-T$2,185
Edora 8 DR-T$2,185
BioMonitor$2,185
Solia$2,185
AVEIR$1,290
ENSITE$417
Carto 3$401
EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$309
Micra$218
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$188
AMPLATZER PICCOLO$178
Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$170
AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$155
Selectra$121
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$110
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$110
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$110

How this compares

$72,598 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$264,900

Medicare patients

697

Services billed

3,025

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	467	$421,360
XareltoRivaroxaban	79	$80,734
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	32	$38,321
Dofetilide	18	$5,730
Mexiletine Hcl	61	$3,526
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate	12	$3,360
Metoprolol Succinate	330	$2,734
Metoprolol Tartrate	414	$1,852
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	116	$1,704
Flecainide Acetate	36	$1,451
Amiodarone Hcl	110	$1,105
Carvedilol	113	$913
Sucralfate	42	$349
Verapamil ErVerapamil Hcl	21	$333
Digoxin	23	$287

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Chicago

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Bradley KnightChicago$661K
Gaurav UpadhyayChicago$593K
Hany DemoChicago$297K
Nishant VermaChicago$232K
Susan KimChicago$186K
Martin BurkeChicago$183K
Arjun MehtaChicago$152K
Rod PassmanChicago$92K
Zaid AzizChicago$74K

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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.

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