Shilpkumar Arora, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1699194365
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 202 payments — averaging $37.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Abiomed$783
- Amgen$517
- Philips North America LLC$427
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$243
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1502%
- Travel & lodging$1,15615%
- Food & beverage$5,92478%
- Education$3895%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 39 | $2,404 |
| Abbott | 20 | $1,329 |
| Abiomed | 17 | $783 |
| Amgen | 30 | $517 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $427 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 13 | $243 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 8 | $239 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $200 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $182 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $179 |
| Novartis | 6 | $139 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $134 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 1 | $78 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $58 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $46 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $41 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $26 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- MO.MA ULTRA$1,157
- RESOLUTE ONYX$365
- EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$209
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$180
- CARDIOMEMS$175
- Impella$156
- (8328) Image Guided Therapy Devices _ Therapy$150
- JETi Peripheral Catheter$142
- JETi All In One Non-Sterile Kit$140
- Artis icono floor$126
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$125
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$125
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$123
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$121
- Diamondback Coronary$120
- FFRct$113
- ENSITE PRECISION$104
- COMET$103
How this compares
$7,620 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 182 interventional cardiology providers in Missouri.
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 | 38 | $203 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 13 | $140 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 14 | $104 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Saint Louis
- Harvey SerotaSaint Louis$7.1M
- Gil VardiSaint Louis$2M
- Alan ZajariasSaint Louis$1.6M
- Anish ThomasSaint Louis$1.5M
- Richard BachSaint Louis$1.5M
- John LasalaSaint Louis$995K
- Jasvindar SinghSaint Louis$993K
- George KichuraSaint Louis$811K
- Usman QayyumSaint Louis$721K
- Marc SintekSaint Louis$552K
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.