Samer Siouffi
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1508822719
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (55.2%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 30.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,783, 2.2 times the $2,142 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in PA, where the typical reported total is $15,643.
Across 252 payments — averaging $60.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$5K
- Medtronic$4K
- Biotronik Inc.$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$622
- Johnson & Johnson$250
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,40055%
- Food & beverage$6,65244%
- Education$1561%
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 | 89 | $4,707 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 52 | $4,281 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 7 | $2,099 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 15 | $1,709 |
| Boston Scientific | 16 | $622 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $250 |
| Novartis | 14 | $245 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 3 | $217 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $162 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $143 |
| Merck | 11 | $127 |
| Amgen | 1 | $125 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 8 | $112 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 5 | $70 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $37 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Medicomp Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 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.
- AVEIR$2,619
- AMVIA EDGE$939
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$939
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$915
- Micra$827
- ARCTIC FRONT ADVANCE$459
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$457
- CARDIOBLATE CRYOFLEX$443
- Arctic Front$398
- OPTIMIZER$366
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$347
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$172
- Assurity Pacemaker$157
- Confirm Rx$141
- RESONATE$125
- Repatha$125
- FARXIGA$125
- XARELTO$124
- JARDIANCE$122
- Watchman$122
How this compares
$15,208 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 201 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Pennsylvania.
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Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Pittsburgh
- John ChenaridesPittsburgh$750K
- Joshua SilversteinPittsburgh$557K
- Amit ThosaniPittsburgh$341K
- George ShawPittsburgh$123K
- Nathan EstesPittsburgh$96K
- Krishna KancharlaPittsburgh$83K
- Samir SabaPittsburgh$55K
- Konstantinos AronisPittsburgh$51K
- Virginia SinglaPittsburgh$37K
- Alaaeldin ShalabyPittsburgh$34K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.