Has Salvatore Savona, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $48,730 in general payments to Salvatore Savona, MD across 128 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 Salvatore Savona, 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 Salvatore Savona, 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.

Salvatore Savona, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Columbus, OHNPI 1841533312

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — grants (56.9%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 54.8% of the total.

$48,730in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 128 payments — averaging $380.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$27K
Boston Scientific$10K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$10K
Abbott$1K
Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC$195
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$94
plus $61 from 2 others

$200,372in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 65 payments — averaging $3082.65 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.

Adagio Medical, Inc.$86K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$73K
Medtronic$31K
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$10K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7,70016%
Grants$27,74557%
Travel & lodging$7,28615%
Food & beverage$6,00012%

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)	69	$26,724
Boston Scientific	24	$10,343
Biosense Webster, Inc.	15	$9,935
Abbott	14	$1,378
Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$195
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$94
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$54
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$6

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

$48,730 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 159 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$193,100

Medicare patients

1,152

Services billed

1,807

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	181	$199,551
XareltoRivaroxaban	55	$68,477
Dofetilide	38	$8,478
Mexiletine Hcl	28	$5,246
Amiodarone Hcl	114	$3,382
SotalolSotalol Hcl	107	$2,637
Metoprolol Succinate	121	$1,677
Flecainide Acetate	21	$1,661
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	39	$861
Metoprolol Tartrate	23	$155
Warfarin Sodium	16	$139
Carvedilol	15	$105
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	11	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Sampath GundaColumbus$73K
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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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