Neelima Katukuri
Cardiovascular Disease · Worcester, MANPI 1487862520
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (56.5%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 32.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,846, 2.7 times the $1,770 reported in 2019.
Across 130 payments — averaging $81.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Abbott$3K
- Penumbra, Inc.$1K
- Abiomed$746
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$728
- Boston Scientific$595
- plus $890 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$270%
- Travel & lodging$5,98856%
- Food & beverage$4,44442%
- Education$1461%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 33 | $3,450 |
| Abbott | 29 | $3,100 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $1,096 |
| Abiomed | 10 | $746 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 19 | $728 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $595 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $330 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $295 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $110 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $40 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
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.
- NAVITOR$1,481
- Indigo$1,096
- PASCAL$1,013
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$805
- OPTIS$462
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$371
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$194
- GORE CARDIOFORM ASD Occluder$149
- ENSITE$144
How this compares
$10,605 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.
Other cardiovascular disease in Worcester
- Bryon Gentile IiWorcester$235K
- Marc SabatineBoston$3.9M
- Elizabeth NabelBoston$2.2M
- Kenneth RosenfieldBoston$1.4M
- Kevin CroceChestnut Hill$1.4M
- James JanuzziBoston$1.1M
- Muthiah VaduganathanBoston$972K
- Joseph LoscalzoBoston$926K
- Sunil KapurBoston$823K
- Paul ZeiBoston$786K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.