Sanjay Sookhu, DO
Cardiovascular Disease · North Bergen, NJNPI 1083096937
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 90.8% of the total across 69 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 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,238, 2.0 times the $607 reported in 2019.
Across 69 payments — averaging $79.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- Boston Scientific$815
- Medtronic$699
- Johnson & Johnson$555
- Atricure, Inc.$480
- Bayer$275
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,95191%
- Education$5039%
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 | 8 | $1,056 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $815 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $699 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $555 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $480 |
| Bayer | 2 | $275 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 8 | $265 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 6 | $202 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $192 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $190 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $180 |
| Amgen | 2 | $162 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $111 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $77 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- LINQ II$425
- XARELTO$366
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$307
- Confirm Rx$245
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$209
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$195
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$192
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$192
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$158
- Kerendia$150
- Allure Quadra RF CRT Pacemaker$147
- ACCOLADE SR$146
- WATCHMAN FLX$143
- Repatha$141
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$138
- WATCHMAN Access System$137
- SYMPLICITY G3$136
- Adempas$125
- LUPKYNIS$125
- Merlin Connectivity and Remote$124
How this compares
$5,454 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.
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.
Other cardiovascular disease in North Bergen
- Marc CohenNewark$762K
- Peter FarrugiaColts Neck$600K
- Felix Dailey-SterlingGuttenberg$568K
- Ramzan ZakirNew Brunswick$342K
- Richard KovachBrowns Mills$300K
- Andrea RussoCamden$293K
- John KostisNew Brunswick$225K
- Dilip ViswanathHaddon Heights$167K
- David PowellSpringfield$162K
- Fadi ChaabanWest Orange$161K
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.