Rajendra Makkar, MD
Interventional Cardiology · West Hollywood, CANPI 1164450235
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,295 payments — averaging $12,798 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$8.9M
- Boston Scientific$5.7M
- Abbott$1.5M
- Medtronic$362K
- Bayer$79K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$32K
- plus $30K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,8602%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5000%
- Grants$550%
- Travel & lodging$84,51469%
- Food & beverage$35,49229%
- Education$840%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 780 | $8,941,211 |
| Boston Scientific | 194 | $5,672,694 |
| Abbott | 242 | $1,455,648 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 28 | $362,313 |
| Bayer | 3 | $79,147 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 3 | $32,285 |
| Pi-cardia, Inc. | 4 | $12,499 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 8 | $10,445 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $2,537 |
| Jenavalve Technology, Inc. | 8 | $2,115 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 2 | $585 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $413 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $346 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $235 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $191 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $146 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $86 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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.
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$14,790
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$8,302
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$6,689
- Savaysa$4,334
- Mitra Clip system$2,579
- JenaValve Pericardial TAVR System$1,625
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,144
- PORTICO$1,115
- PASCAL$656
- CoreValve Evolut$640
- FFRangio$551
- Shortcut$499
- MitraClip$349
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$319
- Impella$280
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$253
- Indigo System$235
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$228
- Portico Transcatheter Aortic HV$200
- SYMPLICITY G3$175
How this compares
$16,573,115 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 33 | $452 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in West Hollywood
- Hasanian JilaihawiWest Hollywood$768K
- Fahed BitarCovina$9.9M
- Rahul SharmaStanford$6.6M
- Matthew Pricela Jolla$5.8M
- David LeeStanford$5.7M
- Saibal KarThousand Oaks$5.4M
- Mehrdad ArianiNorthridge$5M
- Frederick St GoarMountain View$4.2M
- Sammy ElmariahSan Francisco$4.2M
- William FearonStanford$3.7M
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.