Pooneh Rafsanjani
Cincinnati, OHNPI 1740785054
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $17,124 of the $26,537 with a category attached, or 64.5%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotronik Inc. at 30.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,173, more than ten times the $17 reported in 2021.
Across 187 payments — averaging $141.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotronik Inc.$8K
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Abbott$7K
- Medtronic$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- AstraZeneca$217
- plus $475 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$17,12465%
- Food & beverage$8,86533%
- Education$5492%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biotronik Inc. | 49 | $8,155 |
| Boston Scientific | 25 | $7,081 |
| Abbott | 52 | $6,734 |
| Medtronic | 28 | $2,591 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 21 | $1,284 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $217 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 5 | $164 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $119 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 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.
- Farapulse$5,006
- GALLANT$2,770
- ENSITE PRECISION$1,794
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$1,200
- Micra$1,016
- Carto 3$938
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$757
- VersaCross RF Wire$734
- PAMIRA$318
- Sentus$300
- Plexa ProMRI$300
- Edora 8 DR-T$300
- Solia$300
- AVEIR$268
- ENSITE$220
- AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$162
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$129
- CAMZYOS$119
- BRILINTA$117
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.