Megan Burke
Cardiovascular Disease · Philadelphia, PANPI 1245627165
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,475 of the $7,982 with a category attached, or 68.6%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 40.2% of the total.
Across 133 payments — averaging $60.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$533
- Abbott$433
- Abiomed$259
- plus $524 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,50631%
- Food & beverage$5,47569%
- Education$10%
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 | 54 | $3,206 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 22 | $1,947 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $1,081 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 5 | $533 |
| Abbott | 18 | $433 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $259 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $127 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $124 |
| Novartis | 1 | $68 |
| Stryker | 1 | $68 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Amgen | 2 | $31 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
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.
How this compares
$7,982 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.
Other cardiovascular disease in Philadelphia
- Paul ForfiaPhiladelphia$1.2M
- Quang BuiPhiladelphia$933K
- Dean KaralisPhiladelphia$385K
- Manavendra BakhshiPhiladelphia$250K
- Philip HainesPhiladelphia$170K
- Julio ChirinosPhiladelphia$145K
- Michael MillerPhiladelphia$133K
- Nehal MehtaPhiladelphia$129K
- Garo GaribianPhiladelphia$115K
- Norman FeinsmithPhiladelphia$94K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.