Vahid Namdarizandi
Cardiovascular Disease · New York, NYNPI 1750843447
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,559 of the $4,554 with a category attached, or 78.1%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 26.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,445 and has fallen 56.4% since, to $629 in 2025.
Across 117 payments — averaging $38.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- Boston Scientific$431
- Heartflow, Inc.$343
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$339
- Novartis$331
- Biotronik Inc.$308
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,55978%
- Education$99522%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 16 | $1,202 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $431 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 8 | $343 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $339 |
| Novartis | 25 | $331 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 8 | $308 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $204 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $203 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $189 |
| Merck | 6 | $142 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $136 |
| Amgen | 6 | $120 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $107 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $72 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $65 |
| Bayer | 3 | $62 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $45 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Procyrion, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Ancora Heart, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $25 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $24 |
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.
- ENSITE$814
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$240
- WATCHMAN Access System$216
- LINQ II$163
- CARDIOMEMS$140
- FFRct$134
- FARXIGA$125
- Saxenda$117
How this compares
$4,554 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.
Other cardiovascular disease in New York
- Roger HajjarNew York$5.2M
- Gregg StoneNew York$2M
- Philippe GenereuxNew York$1.3M
- Adam RosenbluthNew York$1.1M
- Megha PrasadNew York$813K
- Eyal HerzogNew York$645K
- Nisha JhalaniNew York$443K
- Roxana MehranNew York$432K
- Howard WeintraubNew York$328K
- Anuradha Lala-TrindadeNew York$324K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.