Has Robert Altman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,807 in general payments to Robert Altman, MD across 37 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Robert Altman, MD did something wrong?

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.

Where does this information about Robert Altman, MD come from?

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.

Robert Altman, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Berkeley Heights, NJNPI 1588788814

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,357 of the $3,807 with a category attached, or 61.9%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biosense Webster, Inc. at 35.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,665 and has fallen 65.8% since, to $569 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $15,131.

$3,807in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $102.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Biosense Webster, Inc.$1K
Boston Scientific$1K
Medtronic$929
Merz North America, Inc.$251
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$116
Abbott$43
plus $46 from 2 others

$4,115in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $457.25 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Boston Scientific$4K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$70018%
Speaking & faculty fees$75020%
Food & beverage$2,35762%

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
Biosense Webster, Inc.	8	$1,342
Boston Scientific	11	$1,080
Medtronic(2 entities)	11	$929
Merz North America, Inc.	3	$251
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	1	$116
Abbott	1	$43
Cvrx, Inc.	1	$32
Revance Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14

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.

How this compares

$3,807 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 102 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$507,425

Medicare patients

1,265

Services billed

6,338

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	310	$356,249
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	74	$103,868
XareltoRivaroxaban	67	$80,456
Dofetilide	49	$8,678
Metoprolol Succinate	196	$3,360
Amiodarone Hcl	67	$2,713
Flecainide Acetate	59	$2,361
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	32	$1,148
SotalolSotalol Hcl	12	$320

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Berkeley Heights

Benjamin D SouzaCherry Hill$741K
Suneet MittalParamus$722K
George MarkHaddon Heights$312K
Raffaele CorbisieroBrowns Mills$135K
Emad AzizNewark$112K
Marc RoelkeWest Orange$110K
Arjun TheerthamParlin$102K
Michael LinkGalloway$96K
Grant SimonsEnglewood$93K
Jonathan SteinbergRidgewood$85K

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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.

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