Talhat Azemi, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Hartford, CTNPI 1942407853
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,273 of the $12,051 with a category attached, or 68.6%. Medtronic accounts for 61.8% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 229 payments — averaging $52.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$7K
- Abbott$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Boston Scientific$295
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$196
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$158
- plus $749 from 17 others
Across 20 payments — averaging $2782.13 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$56K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,77831%
- Food & beverage$8,27369%
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(2 entities) | 136 | $7,442 |
| Abbott | 25 | $2,143 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 19 | $1,068 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $295 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $196 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 8 | $158 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 7 | $127 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $104 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $102 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $49 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 2 | $42 |
| Opsens Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $31 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $25 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $15 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$712
- APOLLOTM$489
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$397
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$196
- CoreValve Evolut$159
- Micra$143
- ABSOLUTE PRO$138
- Hancock$129
- MitraClip$128
How this compares
$12,051 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 73 interventional cardiology 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.
Other interventional cardiology in Hartford
- Craig ThompsonHartford$222K
- Abdul QaziHartford$38K
- Sarfaraz MemonHartford$30K
- Boskey PatelHartford$20K
- Joseph IngrassiaHartford$16K
- Bryan PiccirilloHartford$12K
- Immad SadiqHartford$9K
- Asad RizviHartford$5K
- Daniel FramHartford$3K
- Arslan MasoodHartford$3K
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.