Matthew Seigerman
Interventional Cardiology · Fairfield, CTNPI 1164817623
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,280 of the $5,446 with a category attached, or 60.2%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 26.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,585 and has fallen 88.6% since, to $294 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in CT, where the typical reported total is $5,446.
Across 58 payments — averaging $93.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Abbott$790
- Inari Medical, Inc.$674
- Abiomed$382
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$358
- plus $510 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,16640%
- Food & beverage$3,28060%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 23 | $1,419 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 8 | $1,313 |
| Abbott | 8 | $790 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 5 | $674 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $382 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $358 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $325 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $165 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,014
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$707
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$661
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$493
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$294
- Impella$278
- MitraClip$261
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$186
- Orsiro Mission$165
- Optis Coronary Imaging System$156
- CoreValve Evolut$143
How this compares
$5,446 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 73 interventional cardiology providers in Connecticut.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| VyndamaxTafamidis | 20 | $545,932 |
| EliquisApixaban | 311 | $339,381 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 127 | $145,292 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 155 | $95,289 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 85 | $88,973 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 76 | $81,219 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 82 | $65,015 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 48 | $25,377 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 18 | $15,929 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 41 | $14,325 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 816 | $9,589 |
| Ezetimibe | 310 | $7,015 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 569 | $6,949 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 525 | $4,856 |
| Losartan Potassium | 578 | $4,489 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Fairfield
- Ram GordonFairfield$11K
- Edward TuohyFairfield$4K
- Amit VoraNew Haven$409K
- Craig ThompsonHartford$222K
- Michael NannaNew Haven$60K
- Jawad HaiderBloomfield$44K
- Sameer NagpalNew Haven$43K
- Khagendra DahalFarmington$42K
- Abdul QaziHartford$38K
- Sarfaraz MemonHartford$30K
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.