Tajinderpal Saraon, MD
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · New York, NYNPI 1235312331
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $14,162 of the $22,504 with a category attached, or 62.9%. Abbott accounts for 83.8% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $8,034 and has fallen 72.4% since, to $2,215 in 2025.
Across 214 payments — averaging $105.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$19K
- Endotronix, Inc.$864
- Scpharmaceuticals Inc.$358
- Novartis$328
- Pfizer$269
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$267
- plus $2K from 15 others
Across 39 payments — averaging $15,256 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.
- Endotronix, Inc.$329K
- Baxter Healthcare$191K
- Abbott$75K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$14,16263%
- Travel & lodging$1,4156%
- Food & beverage$6,92731%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 105 | $18,854 |
| Endotronix, Inc. | 4 | $864 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $358 |
| Novartis | 18 | $328 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $269 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $267 |
| Merck | 12 | $252 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 11 | $234 |
| Bayer | 6 | $211 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $185 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $108 |
| Ancora Heart, Inc. | 2 | $103 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $80 |
| Amgen | 2 | $44 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Daxor Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $24 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Sensible Medical Innovations 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.
How this compares
$22,504 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 106 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 167 | $184,421 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 63 | $63,081 |
| EliquisApixaban | 54 | $53,809 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 26 | $30,889 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 13 | $14,842 |
| Eplerenone | 61 | $4,080 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 147 | $3,371 |
| Torsemide | 86 | $2,342 |
| Bumetanide | 27 | $1,925 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 76 | $801 |
| Colchicine | 14 | $708 |
| Spironolactone | 73 | $407 |
| Carvedilol | 45 | $369 |
| Furosemide | 60 | $348 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 28 | $292 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| NovartisEntresto | $328 | $184,421167 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $234 | $63,08163 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $269 | $53,80954 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $185 | $30,88926 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $108 | $14,84213 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 106 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in New York.
Other advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in New York
- Johanna ContrerasNew York$534K
- Sean PinneyNew York$305K
- Mathew MaurerNew York$249K
- Dor LotanNew York$158K
- Nir UrielNew York$125K
- Gabriel SayerNew York$95K
- Parag GoyalNew York$87K
- Alex ReyentovichNew York$49K
- Paolo ColomboNew York$44K
- Melana YuzefpolskayaNew York$44K
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.