Vasken Keleshian, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Escondido, CANPI 1770947384
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 145 payments — averaging $79.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Abiomed$1K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$832
- Biotronik Inc.$512
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,12319%
- Grants$2,91125%
- Food & beverage$6,37856%
- Education$581%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $3,441 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $2,141 |
| Abbott | 18 | $1,239 |
| Abiomed | 21 | $1,063 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 28 | $832 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 6 | $512 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $452 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 5 | $253 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $235 |
| Novartis | 13 | $231 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $190 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $134 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $108 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $89 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 3 | $85 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $82 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $79 |
| Baylis Medical Company Inc | 2 | $56 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $44 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $28 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- GENERAL - STENTS$900
- GENERAL ATHERECTOMY$885
- Impella$533
- OPTIS$389
- PRESSUREWIRE$273
- AMVIA EDGE$238
- LifeVest$237
- Indigo System$235
- XARELTO$225
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$199
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$175
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$162
- Diamondback Coronary$148
- COROFLOW$122
- CAMZYOS$116
- MANTA$108
How this compares
$11,470 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 60 | $88,560 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 53 | $58,541 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 17 | $18,305 |
| Valsartan | 45 | $1,787 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 49 | $1,110 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 71 | $731 |
| Verapamil ErVerapamil Hcl | 12 | $510 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 31 | $504 |
| Bumetanide | 14 | $463 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 41 | $452 |
| Furosemide | 71 | $448 |
| Carvedilol | 31 | $418 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 21 | $408 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 45 | $366 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 31 | $363 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $79 | $88,56060 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $452 | $58,54153 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $231 | $18,30517 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 50th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.
Other interventional cardiology in Escondido
- Rajendra MakkarWest Hollywood$16.6M
- Fahed BitarCovina$9.9M
- Rahul SharmaStanford$6.6M
- Matthew Pricela Jolla$5.8M
- David LeeStanford$5.7M
- Saibal KarThousand Oaks$5.4M
- Mehrdad ArianiNorthridge$5M
- Frederick St GoarMountain View$4.2M
- Sammy ElmariahSan Francisco$4.2M
- William FearonStanford$3.7M
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.