Nishtha Sodhi, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Saint Paul, MNNPI 1467744326
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (46.1%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 53.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $28,013 and has fallen 97.1% since, to $825 in 2025.
Across 170 payments — averaging $293.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$27K
- Edwards Lifesciences$11K
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$7K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Abbott$3K
- Philips North America LLC$332
- plus $237 from 4 others
Across 25 payments — averaging $2602.64 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.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$64K
- Medtronic$850
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,69521%
- Speaking & faculty fees$23,01346%
- Travel & lodging$9,60119%
- Food & beverage$6,59613%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 62 | $26,602 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 62 | $10,950 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 1 | $6,545 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $2,719 |
| Abbott | 33 | $2,519 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $332 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $80 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $78 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$19,093
- DERMABOND PRINEO$6,545
- STRATAFIX$6,545
- CoreValve Evolut$5,891
- EVOQUE$2,888
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$2,500
- Mitra Clip system$1,065
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$756
- (6346) Intrasight Mobile$203
- PASCAL$185
- MitraClip$148
- Xience V coronary stent system$146
- LOTUS EDGE$123
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$119
- Tendyne Mitral Valve System$101
- Cardiovascular- Research only$101
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$101
How this compares
$49,905 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.
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 | 37 | $54,901 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 31 | $493 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 29 | $442 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 16 | $305 |
| Nitroglycerin | 26 | $270 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 13 | $191 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 11 | $180 |
| Lisinopril | 12 | $168 |
| Furosemide | 12 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Saint Paul
- Thomas BiggsSaint Paul$244K
- Pierce VatterottSaint Paul$146K
- Spencer KuboSaint Paul$134K
- Johannes BrechtkenSaint Paul$100K
- Jeffrey ChambersMinneapolis$3.2M
- Srijoy MahapatraRochester$1.2M
- Markus MeyerMinneapolis$786K
- Robert SchwartzMinneapolis$502K
- Robert VantasselMinneapolis$493K
- Charanjit RihalRochester$478K
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.