Question 1

Has Rajeev Samtani received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $58,228 in general payments to Rajeev Samtani across 386 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Rajeev Samtani did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Question 3

Where does this information about Rajeev Samtani come from?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Company	Payments	Total
Abbott	77	$28,651
Medtronic	33	$20,047
Shockwave Medical, Inc	58	$2,842
Terumo Medical Corporation	44	$1,474
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	27	$829
Edwards Lifesciences	19	$828
Boston Scientific	21	$702
Philips North America LLC	6	$424
Abiomed	14	$422
Amgen	15	$356
Chiesi USA, Inc.	12	$276
AstraZeneca	13	$259
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	10	$244
Pfizer	10	$226
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	5	$111
Novartis	4	$94
Cordis US CORP.	4	$93
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	5	$90
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$73
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	2	$48
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	2	$47
Cook Medical LLC	1	$34
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.	1	$31
Asahi Intecc USA, Inc.	1	$26

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