Has Somto Nwaedozie, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $16,463 in general payments to Somto Nwaedozie, MD across 54 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Somto Nwaedozie, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Somto Nwaedozie, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Somto Nwaedozie, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Madison, WINPI 1487216560

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $13,571 of the $16,463 with a category attached, or 82.4%. Philips North America LLC accounts for 80.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $14,995 and has fallen 95.2% since, to $713 in 2025.

$16,463in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $304.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Philips North America LLC$13K
Abbott$1K
Boston Scientific$627
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$319
Amgen$271
Endotronix, Inc.$223
plus $482 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Grants$6274%
Travel & lodging$13,57182%
Food & beverage$2,07513%
Education$1891%

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
Philips North America LLC	18	$13,227
Abbott	16	$1,313
Boston Scientific	2	$627
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	3	$319
Amgen	5	$271
Endotronix, Inc.	2	$223
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	2	$183
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	1	$156
Abiomed	2	$69
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$41
Medtronic	1	$17
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	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.

(9520) IGT Devices Undivided$12,134
GALLANT$824
(6554) Peripheral Vascular Undivided$558
OPTIMIZER$282
Diamondback Peripheral$156
Diamondback Coronary$156
CORDELLA PULOMONARY ARTERY PRESSURE SENSOR$141
UPTRAVI$130
OPSUMIT$130

How this compares

Too few advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Wisconsinto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,242

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
EliquisApixaban	33	$29,419
Ezetimibe	11	$428
Metoprolol Succinate	23	$391
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate	15	$333
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	11	$197
Losartan Potassium	16	$129
Atorvastatin Calcium	25	$128
Furosemide	14	$89

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in Madison

Sofia MasriMadison$6K
Maryl JohnsonMadison$5K
David MurrayMadison$1K
Veli TopkaraMadison$658
Aurangzeb BaberMadison$443
Line KemeyouMadison$209
Dianne ZwickeMilwaukee$56K
Ravi DhingraMilwaukee$27K
Nasir SulemanjeeMilwaukee$16K
Jose Iturrizaga MurrietaSheboygan$8K

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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.

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