Megha Prasad, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · New York, NYNPI 1174887137
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (46.1%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 34 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.8%. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in NY 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 686 payments — averaging $1185.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$177K
- Abbott$124K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$119K
- Medtronic$112K
- ZOLL Circulation Inc$66K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$55K
- plus $161K from 28 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $3848.25 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.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$31K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$335,68341%
- Speaking & faculty fees$375,08846%
- Grants$1350%
- Travel & lodging$78,42710%
- Food & beverage$23,9113%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 109 | $176,914 |
| Abbott | 53 | $123,627 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 111 | $118,704 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 148 | $111,709 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 14 | $66,232 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 11 | $55,287 |
| Boston Scientific | 68 | $49,051 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $21,759 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 8 | $18,471 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 18 | $13,234 |
| Abiomed | 19 | $13,014 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 21 | $12,010 |
| Neovasc Medical Inc | 6 | $11,929 |
| Spectrawave, Inc | 4 | $9,844 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $3,541 |
| Philips North America LLC | 11 | $2,964 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $2,216 |
| Novartis | 14 | $422 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 5 | $396 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 11 | $314 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $290 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $278 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 4 | $139 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $130 |
| Amgen | 6 | $126 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $125 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $113 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $65 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $40 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $38 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $30 |
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.
- KENGREAL$175,157
- JARDIANCE$139,677
- OPTIS$88,778
- TherOx DS2 Console$66,232
- Catheter$66,232
- Downstream Cartridge$66,232
- FFRangio$60,542
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$45,392
- Dragonfly OCT$33,413
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$18,075
- Impella$12,359
- HyperVue Imaging System$9,832
- Starlight Imaging Catheter$9,832
- WATCHMAN FLX$3,851
- ONYX FRONTIER$2,262
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$1,759
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$938
- RESOLUTE ONYX$795
- AVVIGO Guidance System$783
- Resolute$670
How this compares
$813,244 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 40 | $51,079 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 12 | $181 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $118,704 | $51,07940 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.
Other cardiovascular disease in New York
- Roger HajjarNew York$5.2M
- Gregg StoneNew York$2M
- Philippe GenereuxNew York$1.3M
- Adam RosenbluthNew York$1.1M
- Eyal HerzogNew York$645K
- Nisha JhalaniNew York$443K
- Roxana MehranNew York$432K
- Howard WeintraubNew York$328K
- Anuradha Lala-TrindadeNew York$324K
- Steven MarxNew York$323K
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.