Rod Passman, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Chicago, ILNPI 1982639688
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (36.8%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 46.5% of the total.
Across 267 payments — averaging $346.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$43K
- Boston Scientific$22K
- Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$10K
- Abbott$7K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$3K
- plus $3K from 17 others
Across 31 payments — averaging $2598.78 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.
- Medtronic$23K
- Abbott$23K
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$19K
- Boston Scientific$17K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$33,84737%
- Speaking & faculty fees$34,00237%
- Travel & lodging$12,66714%
- Food & beverage$11,89613%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 93 | $42,959 |
| Boston Scientific | 77 | $21,924 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 10 | $9,905 |
| Abbott | 47 | $6,742 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $5,431 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $2,556 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 10 | $839 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 5 | $444 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $337 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $214 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $155 |
| Biosig Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $129 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $127 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $120 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $87 |
| Volta Medical Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 2 | $31 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $22 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Catheter Precision Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
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.
- ZIO XT Patch$9,597
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$6,118
- Arctic Front$5,880
- Carto 3$5,591
- MULTAQ$2,556
- ENSITE$1,644
- Quartet CRT Lead$1,500
- Confirm Rx$1,200
- Allure CRT Pacemaker$637
- Micra$599
- MERLIN@HOME$363
- BioMonitor$358
- MUSE$337
- XARELTO$274
- EMBLEM MRI S-ICD$188
- ENSITE PRECISION$182
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$156
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$155
- RELIANCE 4 FRONT$150
- WATCHMAN Access System$147
How this compares
$92,412 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 293 | $392,481 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 88 | $135,646 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 97 | $126,315 |
| Dofetilide | 36 | $12,336 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 223 | $9,763 |
| Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl | 20 | $6,057 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 296 | $5,305 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 137 | $3,288 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 44 | $925 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 25 | $339 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 20 | $293 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 18 | $191 |
| Sotalol AfSotalol Hcl | 12 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $2,556 | $135,64688 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Chicago
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- Bradley KnightChicago$661K
- Gaurav UpadhyayChicago$593K
- Hany DemoChicago$297K
- Nishant VermaChicago$232K
- Susan KimChicago$186K
- Martin BurkeChicago$183K
- Arjun MehtaChicago$152K
- Zaid AzizChicago$74K
- Lalit WadhwaniChicago$73K
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.