Nirmal Sunkara, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Orange, CANPI 1396908141
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 605 payments — averaging $496.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$174K
- Novo Nordisk AS$92K
- AstraZeneca$13K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$8K
- Medtronic$4K
- GSK$2K
- plus $6K from 14 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1806.89 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.
- Eli Lilly$2K
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi US Services Inc. | 245 | $174,353 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 204 | $91,782 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $12,973 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 2 | $8,437 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 54 | $4,115 |
| GSK | 1 | $2,365 |
| Abbott | 23 | $2,351 |
| Kowa Research Institute, Inc. | 2 | $1,776 |
| Boston Scientific | 38 | $1,056 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 17 | $741 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $67 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $54 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$300,518 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.
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.
Other interventional cardiology in Orange
- Ailin Barseghian El-FarraOrange$690K
- Antonio Halais FrangiehOrange$594K
- Brian KolskiOrange$569K
- Jeffrey TylerOrange$411K
- Arnold SetoOrange$362K
- Rajendra MakkarWest Hollywood$16.6M
- Fahed BitarCovina$9.9M
- Rahul SharmaStanford$6.6M
- Matthew Pricela Jolla$5.8M
- David LeeStanford$5.7M
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.