Varun Avula
Cardiovascular Disease · Butler, PANPI 1356754949
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 533 payments — averaging $67.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$14K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$8K
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Abiomed$2K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 35 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,60018%
- Grants$1,1053%
- Travel & lodging$9,14525%
- Food & beverage$19,26953%
- Education$690%
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.
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$11,763
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$7,389
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,659
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL$1,105
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$911
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$866
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$663
- AMPLATZER AMULET$657
- Impella$642
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$546
- CoreValve Evolut$434
- Watchman$332
- Vascular Lithotripsy$170
- FFRct$158
- Diamondback Coronary$137
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$127
- JARDIANCE$125
- Kerendia$121
- (4067) Tack Endo Sys BTK$118
- ARTIX MT$111
How this compares
$36,188 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ArcalystRilonacept | 13 | $298,806 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 100 | $89,270 |
| EliquisApixaban | 95 | $74,488 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 63 | $49,107 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 33 | $31,905 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 45 | $29,299 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 12 | $12,688 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 13 | $10,274 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 104 | $5,944 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 169 | $3,143 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 232 | $3,080 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 88 | $1,169 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 86 | $970 |
| Potassium Chloride | 26 | $792 |
| Bumetanide | 18 | $774 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLCArcalyst | $18 | $298,80613 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $140 | $89,270100 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $302 | $74,48895 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $160 | $49,10763 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga | $446 | $42,17946 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $204 | $12,68812 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 85th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.
Other cardiovascular disease in Butler
- Sunder RaoButler$327K
- Danielle DuffyPhiladelphia$29.5M
- Venkatesh NadarCamp Hill$18.3M
- Hemal GadaWormleysburg$6.7M
- Brian DrachmanPhiladelphia$3.8M
- William BachinskyMechanicsburg$2.3M
- Bonnie KyPhiladelphia$1.9M
- Benjamin KalsmithPgh$1.7M
- Marielle Scherrer CrosbiePhiladelphia$1.6M
- Paul GrenaYardley$1.6M
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.