Stephane Rinfret
Interventional Cardiology · Gainesville, GANPI 1679168470
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (34.5%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.6%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $30,333 and has fallen 91.5% since, to $2,565 in 2025.
Across 251 payments — averaging $285.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teleflex LLC$17K
- Arrow International, Inc.$15K
- Medtronic$13K
- Abiomed$13K
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$2K
- plus $5K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$24,75035%
- Speaking & faculty fees$24,31834%
- Travel & lodging$7,87411%
- Food & beverage$14,77121%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teleflex LLC | 28 | $16,931 |
| Arrow International, Inc. | 8 | $14,908 |
| Medtronic | 64 | $13,321 |
| Abiomed | 20 | $12,556 |
| Boston Scientific | 73 | $7,212 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 15 | $1,537 |
| Abbott | 13 | $1,457 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $1,304 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 8 | $860 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $346 |
| Spectrawave, Inc | 3 | $262 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $205 |
| Teleflex Medical Canada Inc. | 1 | $172 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $144 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 2 | $126 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Verge Medical, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Opsens Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Impella$12,118
- RESOLUTE ONYX$8,106
- TURNPIKE$5,261
- GUIDELINER$4,803
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$4,000
- Resolute$3,557
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$1,294
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$1,154
- OPTIS$765
- MANTA$383
- OPTICROSS$379
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$346
- ONYX FRONTIER$325
- ASAHI PTCA Guide Wire$316
- XIENCE SIERRA$263
- AVVIGO Guidance System$255
- Asahi Peripheral Vascular Wires$241
- TherOx DS2 Console$205
- Catheter$205
- Downstream Cartridge$205
How this compares
$71,713 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 218 interventional cardiology providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 18 | $10,374 |
| Prasugrel Hcl | 13 | $344 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 32 | $343 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 11 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Gainesville
- Mudassar AhmedGainesville$193K
- Ronnie RamadanGainesville$45K
- Habib SamadyGainesville$42K
- Zachary GeorgeGainesville$24K
- Olga TolevaGainesville$19K
- Marc Allard-RatickGainesville$19K
- William NicholsonAtlanta$1000K
- David KandzariAtlanta$982K
- Pradeep YadavAtlanta$656K
- Salvatore ManninoMarietta$275K
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.