Nicole Chahine
Interventional Cardiology · Youngstown, OHNPI 1740785203
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,886 of the $7,236 with a category attached, or 67.5%. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.4%. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,163 and has fallen 84.9% since, to $478 in 2025.
Across 78 payments — averaging $92.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Abbott$769
- Medtronic$753
- Amgen$701
- Inari Medical, Inc.$523
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$1,06315%
- Travel & lodging$6559%
- Food & beverage$4,88668%
- Education$6329%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 11 | $1,479 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $1,359 |
| Abbott | 10 | $769 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $753 |
| Amgen | 6 | $701 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 9 | $523 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $367 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $299 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 5 | $269 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 6 | $160 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $148 |
| Stryker | 2 | $132 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $116 |
| Novartis | 1 | $34 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $31 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $23 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $22 |
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.
- Impella$1,285
- Repatha$701
- ONYX FRONTIER$563
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$520
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$520
- CAMZYOS$367
- ZIO XT Patch$299
- Zio monitor$299
- MitraClip$184
- ENSITE PRECISION$163
- CARDIOMEMS$150
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$135
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$132
- LifeVest$122
- UPTRAVI$115
- OPSUMIT$115
How this compares
$7,236 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 256 interventional cardiology providers in Ohio.
Other interventional cardiology in Youngstown
- Gary AnselColumbus$3.3M
- John CheathamColumbus$1.4M
- Carlos Sanchez SotoColumbus$1.1M
- Steven YakubovColumbus$907K
- Timothy HenryCincinnati$605K
- Mitchell SilverColumbus$562K
- John PhillipsColumbus$410K
- John CorlCincinnati$390K
- Santiago GarciaCincinnati$360K
- Atish MathurMansfield$291K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.