Owais Abdul Kafi, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Lake Forest, ILNPI 1922462647
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $47,500 of the $56,047 with a category attached, or 84.7%. Medtronic accounts for 63.6% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $46,609 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $1,280 in 2025. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 124 payments — averaging $451.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$36K
- Abbott$14K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$974
- Abiomed$513
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$47,50085%
- Travel & lodging$1,7333%
- Food & beverage$6,37111%
- Education$4431%
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 | 17 | $35,630 |
| Abbott | 14 | $13,929 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 26 | $1,935 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 7 | $1,079 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $974 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $513 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $287 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $207 |
| Novartis | 10 | $203 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $180 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $176 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $164 |
| Amgen | 1 | $141 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $109 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $94 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $80 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $40 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $18 |
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$30,910
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$983
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$983
- Impella$513
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$422
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$327
- WATCHMAN Access System$236
- RESOLUTE ONYX$214
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$180
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$178
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$156
- TURNPIKE$150
- Repatha$141
- AVVIGO Guidance System$132
- MitraClip$128
- Watchman$109
- Diamondback Coronary$107
- FARXIGA$101
- STINGRAY$100
How this compares
$56,047 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 303 interventional cardiology providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 22 | $484 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 22 | $300 |
| Carvedilol | 21 | $141 |
| Furosemide | 17 | $123 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 17 | $96 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 22 | $88 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 13 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Lake Forest
- Christina AndersonLake Forest$51K
- Andrei PopElk Grove Village$900K
- Atman ShahChicago$788K
- Ravi RamanaPalos Park$458K
- Mahesh RajuDowners Grove$281K
- Mark RicciardiEvanston$253K
- Neal SawlaniPark Ridge$246K
- Tony de MartiniSpringfield$208K
- Bouyella ReddyMoline$172K
- David StewartChicago$169K
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.