Sathappan Kumar, MD
Cardiac Surgery · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1265589055
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 133 payments — averaging $86.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
- Abiomed$898
- Abbott$660
- Zimmer Biomet$430
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$263
- plus $700 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$250%
- Travel & lodging$5,16845%
- Food & beverage$6,37455%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 41 | $4,379 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 37 | $4,237 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $898 |
| Abbott | 11 | $660 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $430 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 9 | $263 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $172 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $115 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $106 |
| Amgen | 4 | $75 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $44 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,602
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$1,384
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,279
- Impella$714
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$667
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$444
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$438
- MitraClip System$296
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$281
- LigaSure$172
- Mitra Clip system$164
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$156
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$127
- RIBFIX TITAN$124
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$123
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$121
- CLEVIPREX$111
- AIRSEAL$106
How this compares
Too few cardiac surgery providers in New Yorkto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 cardiac surgery in Brooklyn
- Gregory CrookeBrooklyn$6K
- Chartaroon RimsukcharoenchaiNew York$428
- Kaiduan PiRoslyn$0
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.