Poonam Velagapudi, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Omaha, NENPI 1861655144
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (28.2%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 43.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $50,654 and has fallen 76.1% since, to $12,092 in 2025. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in NE 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 273 payments — averaging $520.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$62K
- Boston Scientific$42K
- Asahi Intecc USA, Inc.$12K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$10K
- Abiomed$5K
- Abbott$4K
- plus $8K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$21,30415%
- Speaking & faculty fees$30,62522%
- Grants$40,05528%
- Travel & lodging$39,27328%
- Food & beverage$10,8448%
- Education$70%
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) | 138 | $61,549 |
| Boston Scientific | 27 | $41,520 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 6 | $12,139 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 13 | $10,030 |
| Abiomed | 23 | $4,665 |
| Abbott | 31 | $3,962 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $3,354 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 15 | $1,800 |
| Opsens Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $288 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $266 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $187 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 2 | $181 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $147 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $146 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $124 |
| Novartis | 1 | $117 |
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.
- GENERAL CATHETER$40,000
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$9,845
- RESOLUTE ONYX$6,154
- Asahi Peripheral Vascular Wires$6,000
- Asahi Coronary Wires$6,000
- Resolute$5,576
- Impella$4,261
- MULTAQ$3,229
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$3,225
- OPTIS$1,749
- OptoWire$1,500
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,037
- AMPLATZER AMULET$709
- MitraClip$338
- Diamondback Coronary$180
- SYMPLICITY G3$176
- FFRangio$156
- GUIDELINER$146
- KENGREAL 50MG/10ML L$140
- WOLVERINE CORONARY CUTTING BALLOON$136
How this compares
$142,107 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 50 interventional cardiology providers in Nebraska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 13 | $221 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Omaha
- Himanshu AgarwalOmaha$541K
- Andrew GoldsweigOmaha$49K
- Jai ParekhOmaha$44K
- Scott CarolloOmaha$19K
- Shahbaz MalikOmaha$17K
- Toufik HaddadOmaha$14K
- Charles OlsonOmaha$12K
- Haysam AkkadOmaha$11K
- Ajaypaul SukhiOmaha$9K
- Filip OleszakOmaha$8K
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.