Steven Zweibel, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Hartford, CTNPI 1841214830
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $88,844 of the $125,321 with a category attached, or 70.9%. Medtronic accounts for 98.3% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $33,481 and has fallen 65.7% since, to $11,472 in 2025. Among clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in CT 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 310 payments — averaging $404.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$123K
- Abbott$511
- GE HealthCare$337
- Cardiva Medical, Inc.$195
- ZOLL Medical Corporation$193
- Boston Scientific$148
- plus $749 from 12 others
Across 94 payments — averaging $2812.09 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.
- Medtronic$264K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,8389%
- Speaking & faculty fees$88,84471%
- Travel & lodging$13,79611%
- Food & beverage$11,8449%
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) | 268 | $123,187 |
| Abbott | 9 | $511 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $337 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 12 | $195 |
| ZOLL Medical Corporation | 1 | $193 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $148 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $139 |
| Kaneka Medical America LLC | 1 | $139 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $111 |
| Preventice Services, LLC | 1 | $110 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $95 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $30 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $23 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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.
- Arctic Front$5,884
- Claria MRI$2,738
- Micra$2,293
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$1,447
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$435
- MUSE$337
- PulseSelect$317
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$305
- Evera$220
- Defibrillator$193
- Cobalt$179
- SelectSecure$170
- AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$144
- CARDIOMEMS$140
- Azure$136
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$124
- Visia AF$118
- LLD$111
- ARCTIC FRONT ADVANCE$108
- CG Future$102
How this compares
$125,321 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 47 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Connecticut.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Flecainide Acetate | 11 | $320 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 11 | $145 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 16 | $102 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Hartford
- Joseph Dell OrfanoHartford$160K
- Neal LippmanHartford$69K
- Aneesh TolatHartford$53K
- William PeruckiHartford$37K
- Ricardo AvendanoHartford$30K
- Craig MoskowitzHartford$30K
- Meir FriedmanHartford$18K
- Eric CrespoHartford$10K
- Jeffrey KlugerHartford$4K
- Ellison BernsHartford$2K
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.