Sajan Rao, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Naples, FLNPI 1851589162
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 8 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 8 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $2,774.
Across 8 payments — averaging $109.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$142
- Medtronic$125
- Edwards Lifesciences$125
- Boston Scientific$111
- Abiomed$103
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$102
- plus $165 from 2 others
Across 77 payments — averaging $1329.25 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.
- Bayer$42K
- Novartis$38K
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$23K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$873100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 1 | $142 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $125 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $125 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $111 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $103 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $102 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
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.
- MitraClip System$142
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$125
- Micra$125
- Watchman$111
- Impella$103
- LifeVest$102
How this compares
$873 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VyndamaxTafamidis | 32 | $1,191,889 |
| EliquisApixaban | 172 | $239,680 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 110 | $118,812 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 100 | $115,642 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 69 | $88,111 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 41 | $50,769 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 36 | $37,316 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 17 | $31,827 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 12 | $14,940 |
| WegovySemaglutide | 11 | $14,134 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 11 | $10,012 |
| Eplerenone | 103 | $8,410 |
| Ezetimibe | 161 | $6,240 |
| Candesartan Cilexetil | 47 | $5,509 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 185 | $3,974 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Naples
- William OneillNaples$637K
- Dee Dee WangNaples$173K
- Kevin MakatiLutz$1.6M
- Hiram BezerraTampa$698K
- Theodore FeldmanMiami$637K
- John Gerald CantoLakeland$588K
- Alan MillerJacksonville$547K
- Seth BaumBoca Raton$517K
- Elliott EliasMiami$497K
- Vijay HaryaniVero Beach$413K
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.