Ronald Berger, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Baltimore, MDNPI 1104882687
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.7%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 60.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,502, 6.3 times the $1,192 reported in 2019.
Across 98 payments — averaging $263.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$16K
- Philips North America LLC$6K
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$1K
- Atricure, Inc.$159
- plus $109 from 3 others
Across 25 payments — averaging $6730.97 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.
- Atricure, Inc.$141K
- Boston Scientific$27K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,81650%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,00023%
- Travel & lodging$2,81011%
- Food & beverage$4,18316%
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 | 30 | $15,593 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $6,132 |
| Abbott | 13 | $1,598 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $1,113 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 30 | $1,105 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $159 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $72 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $10 |
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.
- Spectranetics Undiv$6,000
- RHYTHMIA$590
- AVEIR$463
- Assurity Pacemaker$176
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$164
- ACCENT$157
- EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$154
- Carto 3$148
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$137
- ASSURITY$135
- IGT D Electroph$132
- Watchman$113
- Carto 3 System$109
How this compares
$25,809 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 63 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Maryland.
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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 | 69 | $64,123 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 37 | $622 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 19 | $611 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 21 | $319 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Baltimore
- Charles LoveBaltimore$238K
- Hugh CalkinsBaltimore$202K
- Paresh ShahBaltimore$97K
- Jonathan ChrispinBaltimore$77K
- Stephen ShorofskyBaltimore$63K
- Richard JonesBaltimore$49K
- Benjamin RosenBaltimore$41K
- Zeshan AhmadBaltimore$37K
- Klitos KonstantinidisBaltimore$24K
- Sunjeet SidhuBaltimore$21K
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.