Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Wilkes Barre, PANPI 1669422184
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $368,949 of the $593,895 with a category attached, or 62.1%. Medtronic accounts for 73.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 588 payments — averaging $1010.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$436K
- Biotronik Inc.$56K
- Abbott$44K
- Boston Scientific$38K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$10K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
- plus $4K from 5 others
Across 590 payments — averaging $1107.81 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.
- Medtronic$422K
- Abbott$124K
- Biotronik Inc.$107K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$115,72819%
- Speaking & faculty fees$368,94962%
- Grants$9,7642%
- Travel & lodging$84,98914%
- Food & beverage$14,4642%
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) | 390 | $436,473 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 67 | $55,782 |
| Abbott | 64 | $43,764 |
| Boston Scientific | 35 | $38,279 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 10 | $9,698 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $5,463 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 7 | $3,834 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $482 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $77 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $20 |
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 - THERAPIES$27,473
- SelectSecure$21,188
- ACCENT$13,025
- AVEIR$11,547
- Micra$9,797
- OPTIMIZER$7,435
- TENDRIL$6,394
- Carto 3 System$5,325
- Agilis HisPro$4,975
- GENERAL BRADY$2,600
- Agilis NxT EP Introducer$2,500
- Arctic Front$2,179
- Edora$1,318
- Acticor$1,318
- Rivacor$1,318
- Sentus$1,200
- Plexa$1,200
- DURATA$1,125
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$1,103
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$927
How this compares
$593,895 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 201 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 | 38 | $25,357 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 16 | $1,242 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 18 | $331 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 17 | $218 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 11 | $172 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 15 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Wilkes Barre
- Seth WorleyLancaster$3.7M
- John ChenaridesPittsburgh$750K
- Fermin GarciaPhiladelphia$684K
- Ralph VerdinoPhiladelphia$682K
- Pasquale SantangeliPhiladelphia$581K
- Joshua SilversteinPittsburgh$557K
- Francis MarchlinskiPhiladelphia$469K
- Joshua CooperPhiladelphia$405K
- Timothy MarkmanPhiladelphia$402K
- David CallansPhiladelphia$350K
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.