Vandan Upadhyaya, MD
Internal Medicine · Hackensack, NJNPI 1790279396
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (56.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 62.0% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $24,712, more than ten times the $698 reported in 2022. Among internal medicine clinicians in NJ 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 229 payments — averaging $138.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$20K
- Abbott$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Abiomed$734
- AstraZeneca$680
- plus $4K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$18,09857%
- Travel & lodging$3,51011%
- Food & beverage$9,83731%
- Education$3451%
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 | 32 | $19,695 |
| Abbott | 32 | $2,846 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 25 | $2,473 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $1,311 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $734 |
| AstraZeneca | 17 | $680 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 3 | $574 |
| Pfizer | 24 | $473 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 8 | $389 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 6 | $371 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $315 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $261 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $174 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $167 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $150 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $126 |
| Amgen | 5 | $124 |
| Bayer | 7 | $118 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $112 |
| Novartis | 5 | $102 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $88 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 3 | $49 |
| Merck | 3 | $48 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $36 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $30 |
| Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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$1,578
- MitraClip$1,343
- Impella$547
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$407
- CVI SYSTEMS$403
- PASCAL$386
- SavvyWire$247
- BRILINTA$235
- AngioVac$218
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$207
- HD-IVUS$171
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$163
- CARDIOMEMS$149
- Indigo System$143
- TRICLIP$135
- AVVIGO Guidance System$115
- ENSITE$109
- Sentinel$107
How this compares
$31,790 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 11 | $105 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Hackensack
- Suhel AhmedHackensack$82K
- David ShakerHackensack$34K
- David ShulkinMorristown$1.7M
- Howard UdermanLakewood$955K
- Darshi SunderamEast Orange$530K
- Annika DrongeEmerson$401K
- Stephen MarcellaNew Brunswick$331K
- Viju VijaysadanKinnelon$325K
- Mark MonaneWoodcliff Lake$268K
- Martin BedigianLivingston$240K
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.