Ramya Vajapey
Cardiovascular Disease · Cleveland, OHNPI 1306370952
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 151 payments — averaging $310.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$32K
- Medtronic$7K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Abbott$2K
- Philips North America LLC$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- plus $1K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$1,92313%
- Travel & lodging$6,05040%
- Food & beverage$5,08534%
- Education$2,11814%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 31 | $31,753 |
| Medtronic | 52 | $6,656 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $3,218 |
| Abbott | 30 | $1,727 |
| Philips North America LLC | 6 | $1,089 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $1,004 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 5 | $693 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 7 | $510 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $136 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Carto 3$1,285
- ENSITE$743
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$518
- (9124) LM Undivided$395
- Micra$364
- ENSITE PRECISION$230
- AMVIA EDGE$148
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$140
- LifeVest$136
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$124
- Cardiva VASCADE MVP VVCS 6-12F$124
- LINQ II$122
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$118
- AVEIR$115
- GENERAL EP$110
How this compares
$46,929 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.
Other cardiovascular disease in Cleveland
- Samir KapadiaCleveland$11.1M
- Steven NissenCleveland$5.3M
- Milind DesaiCleveland$5M
- Abraham LincoffCleveland$3.6M
- Carlos HubbardCleveland$3.1M
- Guilherme AttizzaniCleveland$2.8M
- Wai Hong TangCleveland$2.2M
- Mazen HannaCleveland$1.6M
- Daniel CantillonCleveland$1.3M
- Oussama WazniCleveland$665K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.