Payment Breakdown by Category
Payments by Nature
| Nature of Payment | Amount | Transactions | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honoraria | $34,500 | 10 | 65.9% |
| Food and Beverage | $9,988 | 276 | 19.1% |
| Travel and Lodging | $7,901 | 24 | 15.1% |
Top Paying Companies
| Company | Total | Records | Latest Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABIOMED | $38,397 | 59 | $0 (2024) |
| Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | $6,054 | 60 | $0 (2024) |
| Medtronic, Inc. | $2,212 | 38 | $0 (2024) |
| Boston Scientific Corporation | $1,364 | 30 | $0 (2024) |
| Medtronic Vascular, Inc. | $1,253 | 13 | $0 (2020) |
| Abbott Laboratories | $1,251 | 41 | $0 (2024) |
| ShockWave Medical, Inc | $378.75 | 10 | $0 (2024) |
| E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | $213.98 | 14 | $0 (2022) |
| Penumbra, Inc. | $149.87 | 1 | $0 (2024) |
| Ostial Corporation | $143.92 | 1 | $0 (2023) |
Payment History by Year
| Year | Amount | Transactions | Top Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1,639 | 35 | ABIOMED ($487.77) |
| 2023 | $14,921 | 60 | ABIOMED ($13,163) |
| 2022 | $14,827 | 65 | ABIOMED ($12,279) |
| 2021 | $13,040 | 41 | ABIOMED ($12,467) |
| 2020 | $1,734 | 18 | Edwards Lifesciences Corporation ($1,597) |
| 2019 | $1,948 | 33 | Edwards Lifesciences Corporation ($1,566) |
| 2018 | $3,279 | 42 | Edwards Lifesciences Corporation ($1,652) |
| 2017 | $1,002 | 16 | BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION ($669.16) |
All Payment Transactions
310 individual payment records from CMS Open Payments — Page 1 of 13
| Date | Company | Product | Nature | Form | Amount | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/31/2024 | Abbott Laboratories | AMPLATZER (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $24.27 | General |
| Category: Structural Heart | ||||||
| 12/10/2024 | Medtronic, Inc. | ONYX FRONTIER (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $148.74 | General |
| Category: Stents | ||||||
| 12/10/2024 | ABIOMED | Impella (Device) | Food and Beverage | Cash or cash equivalent | $99.16 | General |
| Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases | ||||||
| 12/09/2024 | Abbott Laboratories | MITRACLIP (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $22.63 | General |
| Category: Vascular | ||||||
| 12/04/2024 | ShockWave Medical, Inc | Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $103.76 | General |
| Category: Lithoplasty | ||||||
| 11/05/2024 | ABIOMED | Impella (Device) | Food and Beverage | Cash or cash equivalent | $27.89 | General |
| Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases | ||||||
| 10/17/2024 | Medtronic, Inc. | COREVALVE EVOLUT R (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $5.81 | General |
| Category: Transcatheter Valve Systems | ||||||
| 10/14/2024 | Abbott Laboratories | MITRACLIP (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $20.17 | General |
| Category: Vascular | ||||||
| 10/02/2024 | Edwards Lifesciences Corporation | EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $107.92 | General |
| Category: Transcatheter Heart Valves | ||||||
| 09/17/2024 | Penumbra, Inc. | Indigo System (Device) | Food and Beverage | Cash or cash equivalent | $149.87 | General |
| Category: Peripheral Intervention | ||||||
| 09/11/2024 | ABIOMED | Impella (Device) | Food and Beverage | Cash or cash equivalent | $12.45 | General |
| Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases | ||||||
| 08/29/2024 | Medtronic, Inc. | COREVALVE EVOLUT R (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $17.10 | General |
| Category: Transcatheter Valve Systems | ||||||
| 08/27/2024 | Abbott Laboratories | MITRACLIP (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $11.05 | General |
| Category: Vascular | ||||||
| 08/15/2024 | ABIOMED | Impella (Device) | Food and Beverage | Cash or cash equivalent | $16.97 | General |
| Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases | ||||||
| 07/31/2024 | ABIOMED | Impella (Device) | Food and Beverage | Cash or cash equivalent | $26.47 | General |
| Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases | ||||||
| 07/09/2024 | Abbott Laboratories | MITRACLIP (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $24.88 | General |
| Category: Vascular | ||||||
| 06/24/2024 | Abbott Laboratories | CARDIOMEMS (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $77.12 | General |
| Category: Heart Failure | ||||||
| 06/06/2024 | ShockWave Medical, Inc | Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $170.91 | General |
| Category: Lithoplasty | ||||||
| 06/05/2024 | ShockWave Medical, Inc | Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $12.51 | General |
| Category: Lithoplasty | ||||||
| 05/31/2024 | Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC | VERQUVO (Drug), VERQUVO | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $20.09 | General |
| Category: CARDIOVASCULAR | ||||||
| 05/28/2024 | ABIOMED | Impella (Device) | Food and Beverage | Cash or cash equivalent | $23.40 | General |
| Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases | ||||||
| 05/10/2024 | ABIOMED | Impella (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $78.15 | General |
| Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases | ||||||
| 04/30/2024 | ShockWave Medical, Inc | Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $13.23 | General |
| Category: Lithoplasty | ||||||
| 04/18/2024 | ABIOMED | Impella (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $21.56 | General |
| Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases | ||||||
| 03/25/2024 | ABIOMED | Impella (Device) | Food and Beverage | In-kind items and services | $47.58 | General |
| Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases | ||||||
Medicare Billing by Year
| Year | Procedures | Beneficiaries | Services | Submitted | Medicare Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 27 | 1,574 | 1,796 | $350,896 | $138,003 |
| 2022 | 28 | 1,357 | 1,494 | $257,995 | $116,124 |
| 2021 | 30 | 1,587 | 1,705 | $289,320 | $135,938 |
| 2020 | 33 | 1,448 | 1,616 | $284,496 | $134,132 |
All Medicare Procedures & Services
118 procedure records from CMS Medicare Utilization — Page 1 of 5
| HCPCS | Description | Setting | Year | Patients | Services | Charges | Medicare Paid | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93306 | Ultrasound of heart with color-depicted blood flow, rate, direction and valve function | Facility | 2023 | 463 | 494 | $68,252 | $25,831 | 37.8% |
| 92928 | Insertion of stents with balloon dilation of coronary artery or branch, single artery or branch | Facility | 2023 | 47 | 66 | $55,308 | $23,905 | 43.2% |
| 99214 | Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes | Office | 2023 | 201 | 248 | $49,384 | $23,500 | 47.6% |
| 93458 | Insertion of tube in left lower heart chamber and coronary artery for diagnosis with review by radiologist | Facility | 2023 | 57 | 58 | $25,520 | $9,456 | 37.1% |
| 33361 | Replacement of aortic valve through the skin and femoral artery | Facility | 2023 | 14 | 14 | $24,150 | $8,208 | 34.0% |
| 99215 | Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes | Office | 2023 | 53 | 55 | $14,740 | $7,757 | 52.6% |
| 92941 | Removal of plaque and blood clot, insertion of stent and/or balloon dilation of single vessel | Facility | 2023 | 12 | 12 | $11,292 | $6,142 | 54.4% |
| 99204 | New patient office or other outpatient visit, 45-59 minutes | Office | 2023 | 31 | 31 | $7,943 | $3,943 | 49.6% |
| 99223 | Initial hospital care with moderate level of medical decision making, if using time, at least 75 minutes | Facility | 2023 | 25 | 25 | $6,780 | $3,483 | 51.4% |
| 93454 | Insertion of tube in coronary artery for diagnosis with review by radiologist | Facility | 2023 | 20 | 20 | $7,160 | $3,054 | 42.7% |
| 93350 | Ultrasound of heart during rest, exercise and/or drug-induced stress with report | Facility | 2023 | 54 | 54 | $7,267 | $2,677 | 36.8% |
| 93298 | Evaluation of cardiac rhythm monitor system, remote up to 30 days | Office | 2023 | 19 | 123 | $9,944 | $2,403 | 24.2% |
| 99205 | New patient office or other outpatient visit, 60-74 minutes | Office | 2023 | 15 | 15 | $4,920 | $2,340 | 47.6% |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care with straightforward or low-level medical decision making, if using time, at least 55 minutes | Facility | 2023 | 21 | 21 | $4,032 | $2,192 | 54.4% |
| 92978 | Ultrasound evaluation of heart blood vessel or graft with review by radiologist, initial vessel | Facility | 2023 | 28 | 28 | $3,780 | $2,063 | 54.6% |
| 99213 | Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes | Office | 2023 | 27 | 27 | $3,645 | $1,779 | 48.8% |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | Facility | 2023 | 24 | 24 | $3,070 | $1,563 | 50.9% |
| 99232 | Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes | Facility | 2023 | 16 | 23 | $2,851 | $1,461 | 51.3% |
| 78452 | Nuclear medicine studies of heart muscle at rest and with stress and spect | Facility | 2023 | 24 | 24 | $16,248 | $1,388 | 8.5% |
| 93308 | Ultrasound of heart, follow-up | Facility | 2023 | 50 | 56 | $8,456 | $1,094 | 12.9% |
| 93016 | Exercise or drug-induced heart stress test with electrocardiogram (ecg) with supervision by physician | Facility | 2023 | 70 | 70 | $2,709 | $1,089 | 40.2% |
| 99152 | Use of a drug to induce depression of consciousness by physician performing a procedure (5 years or older), initial 15 minutes | Facility | 2023 | 79 | 83 | $6,391 | $821.70 | 12.9% |
| 93018 | Exercise or drug-induced heart stress test with electrocardiogram (ecg) with review by physician | Facility | 2023 | 70 | 70 | $1,813 | $732.83 | 40.4% |
| 93320 | Ultrasound of heart blood flow, valves and chambers | Facility | 2023 | 32 | 32 | $896.00 | $454.40 | 50.7% |
| 93000 | Routine electrocardiogram (ecg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report | Office | 2023 | 32 | 33 | $1,012 | $360.40 | 35.6% |
About Bhavith Aruni Babu
Bhavith Aruni Babu is a Internal Medicine healthcare provider based in Pueblo, Colorado. This provider has been registered with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) since 07/08/2011. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) number assigned to this provider is 1841587938.
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments database, Bhavith Aruni Babu has received a total of $52,390 in payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with $1,639 received in 2024. These payments were reported across 310 transactions from 26 companies. The most common payment nature is "Honoraria" ($34,500).
As a Medicare-enrolled provider, Aruni Babu has provided services to 5,966 Medicare beneficiaries, totaling 6,611 services with total Medicare billing of $524,197. Data is available for 4 years (2020–2023), covering 118 distinct procedure/service records.
Practice Information
- Specialty Internal Medicine
- Other Specialties Interventional Cardiology
- Location Pueblo, CO
- Active Since 07/08/2011
- Last Updated 08/08/2018
- Taxonomy Code 207R00000X
- Entity Type Individual
- NPI Number 1841587938
Products in Payments
- Impella (Device) $38,397
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve (Device) $4,508
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R (Device) $1,847
- CoreValve Evolut (Device) $1,115
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve (Device) $637.86
- MITRACLIP (Device) $613.11
- GENERAL - VASCULAR ACCESS (Device) $557.64
- PASCAL (Device) $342.37
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter (Device) $337.57
- EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) (Device) $273.59
- MitraClip System (Device) $263.38
- ELIQUIS (Drug) $241.71
- Indigo System (Device) $149.87
- ONYX FRONTIER (Device) $148.74
- FLASH OSTIAL SYSTEM, FLASH MINI OSTIAL SYSTEM, FLASH OSTIAL SYSTEM OTW (Device) $143.92
- AMPLATZER TALISMAN (Device) $138.07
- PRALUENT ALIROCUMAB INJECTION (Biological) $134.17
- GENERAL THERAPIES (Device) $133.94
- RESOLUTE ONYX (Device) $119.19
- MANTA (Device) $111.08
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Data Sources
Provider data from NPPES. Payment data from CMS Open Payments. Medicare data from CMS Medicare Provider Utilization. All data is public and updated periodically.
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