Ricardo Avendano
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Hartford, CTNPI 1801269527
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $20,695 of the $30,259 with a category attached, or 68.4%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotronik Inc. at 30.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $16,893, more than ten times the $235 reported in 2021.
Across 188 payments — averaging $160.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotronik Inc.$9K
- Medtronic$9K
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Abbott$5K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Sanofi$419
- plus $295 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$20,69568%
- Food & beverage$8,48928%
- Education$1,0754%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biotronik Inc. | 36 | $9,212 |
| Medtronic | 83 | $8,542 |
| Boston Scientific | 23 | $5,020 |
| Abbott | 28 | $4,997 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $1,774 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $419 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $177 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $96 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- AVEIR$2,494
- Micra$1,626
- GENERAL EP$1,487
- Product in Development$1,016
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$834
- ASSURITY$702
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$528
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$527
- ACCENT$397
- GORE EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$391
- Selectra$285
- Solia$285
- AMVIA EDGE$285
- PAMIRA$285
- EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$223
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$187
- ENSITE PRECISION$175
- Carto 3$143
How this compares
$30,259 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 47 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Connecticut.
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- Steven ZweibelHartford$125K
- Neal LippmanHartford$69K
- Aneesh TolatHartford$53K
- William PeruckiHartford$37K
- Craig MoskowitzHartford$30K
- Meir FriedmanHartford$18K
- Eric CrespoHartford$10K
- Jeffrey KlugerHartford$4K
- Ellison BernsHartford$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.