Mariem Sawan
Cardiovascular Disease · Baltimore, MDNPI 1821442344
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $80,000 of the $85,795 with a category attached, or 93.2%. Boston Scientific accounts for 94.9% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $83,052 and has fallen 97.5% since, to $2,084 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in MD 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 74 payments — averaging $1159.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$81K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$1K
- Medtronic$790
- Abbott$742
- Abiomed$731
- Penumbra, Inc.$292
- plus $785 from 9 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $500.00 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.
- Abbott$500
What the payments were for
- Grants$80,00093%
- Travel & lodging$5761%
- Food & beverage$4,3115%
- Education$9081%
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 | 28 | $81,378 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 10 | $1,078 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $790 |
| Abbott | 4 | $742 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $731 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $292 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $202 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $186 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $91 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $56 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Novartis | 1 | $23 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 2 | $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.
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$971
- ENSITE$542
- Impella$503
- ONYX FRONTIER$396
- ROTAPRO$374
- Indigo System$292
- Ultreon$176
- Optitorque$175
- SYMPLICITY G3$131
- STINGRAY$118
- Rotablator Rotational Atherectomy System Console Kit$108
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$104
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$104
How this compares
$85,795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 507 cardiovascular disease providers in Maryland.
Other cardiovascular disease in Baltimore
- Navin KapurBaltimore$1.5M
- Michael BlahaBaltimore$609K
- Sanjay RajagopalanBaltimore$521K
- Erin MichosBaltimore$257K
- Seth MartinBaltimore$166K
- Erika FellerBaltimore$121K
- Charles CummingsBaltimore$114K
- John RickardBaltimore$109K
- Christopher DefilippiBaltimore$101K
- David KassBaltimore$90K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.