Mahesh Kumarr Balakrishnan, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Tucson, AZNPI 1366890766
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.7%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 37.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,344, more than ten times the $27 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $29,180.
Across 236 payments — averaging $74.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Philips North America LLC$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$738
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,96345%
- Food & beverage$9,29053%
- Education$3852%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 74 | $6,655 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 102 | $4,435 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $1,852 |
| Abbott | 16 | $1,611 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $1,076 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $738 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $630 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 4 | $120 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $116 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $102 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $100 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $33 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $26 |
| ZOLL Respicardia, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $16 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $13 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,509
- Carto 3$2,437
- AVEIR$1,120
- (9124) LM Undivided$904
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$573
- Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$519
- GALLANT$156
- SYMPLICITY G3$130
- Micra$115
- LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor$103
- LifeVest$100
How this compares
$17,638 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 80 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Arizona.
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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.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Tucson
- Aadhavi SridharanTucson$106K
- Mathew HutchinsonTucson$75K
- Jitender MunjalTucson$66K
- Darren PeressTucson$19K
- Sergio ThalTucson$12K
- Hymie FaitelsonTucson$12K
- Akash MakkarPhoenix$318K
- Jonathan WeissPhoenix$290K
- Ashish SadhuScottsdale$264K
- Yoaav KrauthammerPhoenix$238K
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.