Zulfiqar Qutrio Baloch, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Bartlett, TNNPI 1982085106
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 149 payments — averaging $126.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$9K
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Medtronic$4K
- Novartis$437
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$272
- Penumbra, Inc.$247
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$10,86457%
- Travel & lodging$3,42318%
- Food & beverage$3,85420%
- Education$7544%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 13 | $8,648 |
| Boston Scientific | 24 | $3,850 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $3,521 |
| Novartis | 26 | $437 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $272 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $247 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 4 | $243 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $231 |
| Amgen | 7 | $167 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $159 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $123 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 4 | $120 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $117 |
| Bayer | 6 | $96 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $88 |
| Cathworks, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 4 | $74 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $74 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $71 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $64 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $40 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $19 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$18,894 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 207 interventional cardiology providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 11 | $182 |
| Carvedilol | 11 | $155 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 14 | $67 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Bartlett
- Michael MorseNashville$3.5M
- Charles TreasurePowell$3M
- Colin BarkerNashville$2.1M
- Brian JeffersonNashville$2.1M
- Malcolm FosterKnoxville$1.9M
- Rahul SakhujaKingsport$1.9M
- Kashish GoelNashville$1.1M
- Samuel HorrNashville$912K
- Mehul PatelGermantown$810K
- Jimmy KerriganNashville$769K
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.