Has Michael Pelini, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,766 in general payments to Michael Pelini, MD across 92 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 Pelini, MD 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 Pelini, MD 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 Pelini, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Akron, OHNPI 1003808080

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 38.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,918, 5.8 times the $333 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $17,892.

$3,766in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 92 payments — averaging $40.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$1K
Abbott$1K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$492
Medtronic$338
Boehringer Ingelheim$77
Cardiva Medical, Inc.$27
plus $41 from 2 others

$44,277in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $790.65 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.

Medtronic$44K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,80148%
Food & beverage$1,96652%

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	55	$1,443
Abbott	9	$1,348
Biosense Webster, Inc.	18	$492
Medtronic(2 entities)	6	$338
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$77
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$27
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$22
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$19

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

$3,766 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 159 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$172,477

Medicare patients

1,024

Services billed

2,896

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
EliquisApixaban	150	$165,508
XareltoRivaroxaban	40	$51,831
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	11	$13,697
Flecainide Acetate	38	$1,427
Metoprolol Succinate	114	$1,224
Amiodarone Hcl	37	$814
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	40	$756
SotalolSotalol Hcl	11	$695
Amlodipine Besylate	34	$395
Metoprolol Tartrate	48	$278
Lisinopril	51	$263
Carvedilol	43	$224
Losartan Potassium	27	$212
Potassium Chloride	11	$166
Spironolactone	18	$126

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Akron

Tyler TaigenAkron$62K
Faisal MattoAkron$38K
Maher BazziAkron$33K
Anish AminColumbus$1.1M
Walid SalibaCleveland$511K
Mohamed KanjBeachwood$442K
John HummelColumbus$275K
Bruce WilkoffCleveland$213K
Alexandru CosteaCincinnati$188K
Auroa BadinColumbus$188K

See the full list for Ohio →

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.

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