Raja Naidu, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Odessa, TXNPI 1124095161
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 471 payments — averaging $52.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$6K
- Penumbra, Inc.$5K
- Abiomed$3K
- Abbott$3K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Boston Scientific$800
- plus $5K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,06041%
- Food & beverage$14,36758%
- Education$2561%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 93 | $6,063 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 28 | $4,873 |
| Abiomed | 26 | $3,240 |
| Abbott | 54 | $3,203 |
| AstraZeneca | 67 | $1,563 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $800 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 34 | $751 |
| Amgen | 27 | $591 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 7 | $580 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 7 | $486 |
| Novartis | 19 | $335 |
| Merck | 18 | $306 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 11 | $184 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $183 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $149 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $145 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $136 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 2 | $128 |
| Insulet Corporation | 5 | $115 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $102 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $75 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 5 | $68 |
| Bayer | 3 | $57 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $46 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $39 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $26 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $24 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Medicomp Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Vivaquant Inc, Dba Rhythm Express | 1 | $13 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Indigo System$3,151
- Xience V coronary stent system$1,578
- Micra$1,381
- Impella$1,373
- RUBY Coil$1,084
- TurboHawk$421
- SUPERA$402
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$353
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$343
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$284
- CROME DR MRI SURESCAN$257
- XIENCE SIERRA$181
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$173
- Optis Coronary Imaging System$149
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$148
- AVVIGO Guidance System$134
- MOUNJARO$125
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$123
- BRILINTA$118
- FFRct$116
How this compares
$24,683 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.
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 | 559 | $489,726 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 214 | $234,487 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 131 | $157,446 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 129 | $112,297 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 66 | $40,725 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 69 | $40,004 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 37 | $34,767 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 32 | $29,864 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 20 | $19,338 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 19 | $14,908 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 22 | $13,201 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 823 | $7,237 |
| Bumetanide | 134 | $5,882 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 289 | $5,465 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 397 | $5,220 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $183 | $489,726559 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $335 | $234,487214 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $136 | $157,446131 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $145 | $112,297129 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga | $1,563 | $70,58998 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $751 | $34,76737 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $46 | $19,33820 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $184 | $14,90819 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $306 | $13,20122 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.
Other cardiovascular disease in Odessa
- Fernando BoccalandroOdessa$3M
- Ramin Farzaneh-FarDallas$17.1M
- Jeffrey GladdenDallas$15.8M
- Ann NavarDallas$14.5M
- David BrabhamAmarillo$11.5M
- Justin GrodinDallas$6.2M
- Christie BallantyneHouston$4.6M
- Syed NaqviHouston$3.6M
- Faisal WahidMcKinney$3.4M
- James FeldmanHouston$3.1M
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.