Vimalkumar Veerappan Kandasamy, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Peoria, AZNPI 1447514898
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 283 payments — averaging $61.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$9K
- Abbott$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Abiomed$582
- Medtronic$525
- Penumbra, Inc.$414
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5009%
- Travel & lodging$3,89922%
- Food & beverage$11,93569%
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 | 95 | $8,862 |
| Abbott | 64 | $3,536 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 20 | $1,363 |
| Abiomed | 13 | $582 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $525 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $414 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 8 | $361 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 19 | $359 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $202 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 4 | $181 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 17 | $177 |
| Novartis | 6 | $131 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $97 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $62 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $62 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Bayer | 2 | $38 |
| Merck | 2 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $32 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Amgen | 2 | $27 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Thrombolex, Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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 - THERAPIES$2,675
- AVVIGO Guidance System$1,609
- Watchman$1,130
- Mitra Clip system$1,105
- GENERAL TACHY$355
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$308
- Indigo System$290
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$285
- MitraClip$280
- LifeVest$243
- CoreValve Evolut$230
- SYMPLICITY G3$171
- ASSURITY$169
- GENERAL BRADY$166
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$159
- PORTICO$148
- CardioMEMS HF System$138
- Confirm Rx$134
- PASCAL$131
- CARDIOMEMS$128
How this compares
$17,334 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 223 interventional cardiology providers in Arizona.
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 | 524 | $683,464 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 96 | $146,749 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 110 | $136,202 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 50 | $40,742 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 35 | $28,707 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 13 | $19,004 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 437 | $12,635 |
| Losartan Potassium | 613 | $7,512 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 544 | $7,506 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 385 | $5,224 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 104 | $4,484 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 376 | $4,271 |
| Clonidine | 16 | $3,390 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 495 | $3,303 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 22 | $3,036 |
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 | $62 | $683,464524 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $131 | $146,74996 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $32 | $136,202110 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga | $21 | $59,74663 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 60th percentile of 223 interventional cardiology providers in Arizona.
Other interventional cardiology in Peoria
- Azimuddin KhawajaPeoria$199K
- Rahul SharmaPeoria$195K
- Michael AmponsahPeoria$46K
- Paul SorajjaPhoenix$8.8M
- Thomas WaggonerTucson$4.1M
- Hursh NaikAvondale$2.2M
- Nabil DibGilbert$2.2M
- Timothy ByrnePhoenix$2.1M
- Ashish PershadChandler$1.4M
- Mohamad LazkaniPhoenix$1.1M
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.