Saurabh Gupta, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Bend, ORNPI 1902873177
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $394,119 of the $549,544 with a category attached, or 71.7%. Medtronic accounts for 88.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in OR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 623 payments — averaging $882.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$485K
- Edwards Lifesciences$58K
- Abbott$3K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Abiomed$435
- Cook Medical LLC$228
- plus $208 from 5 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $250.00 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.
- Abbott$250
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$46,4888%
- Speaking & faculty fees$394,11972%
- Travel & lodging$90,50616%
- Food & beverage$18,4323%
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) | 429 | $484,652 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 76 | $58,291 |
| Abbott | 40 | $3,105 |
| Boston Scientific | 64 | $2,625 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $435 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $228 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $121 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $36 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $19 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$297,752
- CoreValve Evolut$178,108
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$37,764
- Edwards SAPIEN XT Transcatheter Heart Valve$3,172
- EVOQUE$1,569
- PASCAL$1,460
- AMPLATZER Occluders$1,329
- Watchman$1,132
- MitraClip$321
- Impella$263
- Avalus$253
- Euphora$149
- WATCHMAN Access System$121
- (6575) Coronary Undivided$121
- Zenith Alpha$119
- Resolute$118
- TRICLIP$117
How this compares
$549,544 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 68 interventional cardiology providers in Oregon.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 15 | $131 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Bend
- Erinn HughesBend$14K
- Nicholas BussBend$7K
- Alexander OchmanBend$6K
- Michael SultanBend$5K
- Bruce McLellanBend$4K
- Allen RafaelBend$3K
- Michael WidmerBend$2K
- Jason WollmuthPortland$749K
- Ethan KorngoldPortland$407K
- Amish DesaiPortland$186K
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.