Priyavadan Shah
Cardiovascular Disease · Cary, NCNPI 1679561369
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 748 payments — averaging $1164.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$577K
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$236K
- Novartis$53K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- AstraZeneca$759
- Amgen$611
- plus $3K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,677100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kowa Research Institute, Inc. | 32 | $576,593 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 354 | $236,391 |
| Novartis | 36 | $53,021 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 97 | $1,073 |
| AstraZeneca | 35 | $759 |
| Amgen | 34 | $611 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 51 | $514 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 23 | $399 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $173 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 5 | $163 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 10 | $157 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $151 |
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $140 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $139 |
| Abbott | 5 | $108 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $76 |
| Merck | 6 | $75 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 7 | $75 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $60 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $31 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $18 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $13 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$870,964 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.
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Other cardiovascular disease in Cary
- Pratik DesaiCary$777K
- John AlexanderDurham$76.8M
- Christopher GrangerDurham$24.7M
- Jonathan PicciniDurham$14.3M
- Adrian HernandezDurham$13.2M
- Gary FelkerDurham$12.7M
- Robert MentzDurham$6M
- Michael ShapiroWinston-Salem$5.4M
- Kirkwood AdamsChapel Hill$4.9M
- Matthew JanikWilmington$4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.