Vijay Sheshadri
Cary, NCNPI 1982636882
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,500 of the $10,154 with a category attached, or 73.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 83.2% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,766, more than ten times the $180 reported in 2019.
Across 83 payments — averaging $122.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$358
- Myriad Women's Health, Inc.$224
- Novo Nordisk$113
- AbbVie$99
- Abbott$98
- plus $811 from 19 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $953.33 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.
- Bayer$3K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8939%
- Food & beverage$1,76117%
- Education$7,50074%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $8,451 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 14 | $358 |
| Myriad Women's Health, Inc. | 2 | $224 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $113 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $99 |
| Abbott | 4 | $98 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $96 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $91 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 3 | $71 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $62 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $56 |
| Cepheid | 1 | $52 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $29 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Biogen | 1 | $27 |
| BD | 1 | $23 |
| Embecta Corp. | 1 | $22 |
| Organon | 1 | $18 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $17 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bayer | 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.
- DAVINCI XI$7,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$863
- myRisk$138
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.