Nima Ghasemzadeh, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Braselton, GANPI 1154564367
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,430 of the $6,655 with a category attached, or 81.6%. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 25.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,287 and has fallen 59.7% since, to $518 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $7,640.
Across 187 payments — averaging $35.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$695
- Medtronic$692
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$551
- Philips North America LLC$524
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$329
- plus $2K from 30 others
Across 195 payments — averaging $3365.76 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$194K
- CSL Behring$175K
- Abbott$78K
- Medtronic$55K
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$55K
- Philips North America LLC$44K
- plus $56K from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,22518%
- Food & beverage$5,43082%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 18 | $1,705 |
| Boston Scientific | 27 | $695 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 24 | $692 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 19 | $551 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $524 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 8 | $329 |
| Novartis | 12 | $274 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $231 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $187 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $144 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 5 | $138 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $127 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 4 | $120 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $116 |
| Amgen | 6 | $112 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $66 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $64 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Spectrawave, Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $17 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$6,655 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 218 interventional cardiology providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 158 | $155,053 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 149 | $105,224 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 80 | $75,069 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 38 | $38,297 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 49 | $27,854 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 27 | $26,558 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 12 | $8,099 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 62 | $6,124 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 420 | $4,010 |
| Ezetimibe | 172 | $3,163 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 276 | $3,146 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 191 | $2,692 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 259 | $2,631 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 154 | $2,499 |
| Valsartan | 16 | $1,552 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $231 | $155,053158 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $274 | $75,06980 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta | $66 | $66,15087 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $127 | $26,55827 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 45th percentile of 218 interventional cardiology providers in Georgia.
Other interventional cardiology in Braselton
- William NicholsonAtlanta$1000K
- David KandzariAtlanta$982K
- Pradeep YadavAtlanta$656K
- Salvatore ManninoMarietta$275K
- Megan CoylewrightCalhoun$271K
- Paul GuichardMarietta$260K
- Adam GreenbaumAtlanta$238K
- Wissam JaberAtlanta$222K
- Mudassar AhmedGainesville$193K
- Katherine KunkelAtlanta$189K
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.