Has Michael Paikal received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,789 in general payments to Michael Paikal across 144 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Paikal did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Paikal come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Paikal

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Farmington, NMNPI 1508058371

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.1%), travel and lodging and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 26.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,048 and has fallen 77.8% since, to $1,566 in 2025.

$10,789in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 144 payments — averaging $74.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$3K
Medtronic$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
Abbott$2K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$499
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$353
plus $967 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$5,25749%
Food & beverage$5,51751%
Entertainment$160%

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	34	$2,827
Medtronic(2 entities)	31	$2,436
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	11	$2,068
Abbott	18	$1,639
Biosense Webster, Inc.	12	$499
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	11	$353
Biotronik Inc.	5	$308
Novartis	11	$167
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$116
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	3	$113
Johnson & Johnson	1	$107
Pfizer	3	$95
Teleflex LLC	1	$27
Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.	1	$19
Opsens Inc.	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

Too few clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in New Mexicoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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