Total Payments
$4,359
2024 Payments
$254.73
Companies
8
Transactions
56
Medicare Patients
58
Medicare Billing
$10,688

Payment Breakdown by Category

Food & Beverage$3,176 (72.9%)
Travel$1,182 (27.1%)

Payments by Nature

Nature of Payment Amount Transactions Share
Food and Beverage $3,176 50 72.9%
Travel and Lodging $1,182 6 27.1%

Top Paying Companies

Company Total Records Latest Year
ATRICURE, INC. $1,982 28 $0 (2023)
Abbott Laboratories $1,947 20 $0 (2024)
BIOTRONIK INC. $119.67 1 $0 (2017)
Baxter Healthcare $89.57 2 $0 (2024)
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation $87.49 1 $0 (2018)
Cook Medical LLC $81.59 2 $0 (2022)
Ethicon US, LLC $26.12 1 $0 (2024)
ABIOMED $24.61 1 $0 (2024)

Payment History by Year

Year Amount Transactions Top Company
2024 $254.73 5 Abbott Laboratories ($160.69)
2023 $202.28 3 Abbott Laboratories ($116.19)
2022 $67.34 1 Cook Medical LLC ($67.34)
2021 $23.63 1 ATRICURE, INC. ($23.63)
2020 $75.45 2 ATRICURE, INC. ($61.20)
2019 $1,723 18 Abbott Laboratories ($1,670)
2018 $490.88 7 AtriCure, Inc. ($403.39)
2017 $1,522 19 AtriCure, Inc. ($1,402)

All Payment Transactions

56 individual payment records from CMS Open Payments — Page 1 of 3

Date Company Product Nature Form Amount Type
06/12/2024 Ethicon US, LLC Harmonic (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $26.12 General
Category: Energy
06/12/2024 ABIOMED Impella (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $24.61 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
05/21/2024 Baxter Healthcare FLOSEAL (Biological) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $43.31 General
Category: Surgical Care
03/08/2024 Abbott Laboratories MITRACLIP (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $117.72 General
Category: Vascular
02/15/2024 Abbott Laboratories EPIC (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $42.97 General
Category: Structural Heart
06/01/2023 Abbott Laboratories MITRACLIP (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $116.19 General
Category: Vascular
04/13/2023 Baxter Healthcare PREVELEAK (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $46.26 General
Category: Surgical Care
02/07/2023 ATRICURE, INC. ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2) (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $39.83 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
06/30/2022 Cook Medical LLC COOK (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $67.34 General
Category: Aortic Intervention
03/01/2021 ATRICURE, INC. ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (Device), ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $23.63 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
07/31/2020 Cook Medical LLC Cook Medical Angioplasty (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $14.25 General
Category: Peripheral Intervention
01/17/2020 ATRICURE, INC. ACC2 CARDIAC CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM (Device), ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $61.20 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
11/07/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $45.97 General
Category: Vascular
11/07/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Travel and Lodging Cash or cash equivalent $36.41 General
Category: Vascular
10/11/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Travel and Lodging Cash or cash equivalent $430.69 General
Category: Vascular
10/11/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $303.97 General
Category: Vascular
10/11/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $303.97 General
Category: Vascular
10/11/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $70.81 General
Category: Vascular
10/11/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $56.38 General
Category: Vascular
10/11/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $33.83 General
Category: Vascular
10/11/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $15.99 General
Category: Vascular
10/11/2019 Abbott Laboratories Travel and Lodging In-kind items and services $7.99 General
10/10/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $93.36 General
Category: Vascular
10/10/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $68.18 General
Category: Vascular
10/10/2019 Abbott Laboratories Mitra Clip system (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $68.11 General
Category: Vascular

Medicare Billing by Year

Year Procedures Beneficiaries Services Submitted Medicare Paid
2022 1 14 15 $11,913 $2,764
2021 1 18 18 $14,400 $3,352
2020 1 26 26 $18,500 $4,571
Total Patients
58
Total Services
59
Medicare Billing
$10,688
Procedure Codes
3

All Medicare Procedures & Services

3 procedure records from CMS Medicare Utilization

HCPCS Description Setting Year Patients Services Charges Medicare Paid Ratio
99223 Initial hospital inpatient care per day, typically 70 minutes Facility 2022 14 15 $11,913 $2,764 23.2%
99223 Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day Facility 2021 18 18 $14,400 $3,352 23.3%
99223 Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day Facility 2020 26 26 $18,500 $4,571 24.7%

About Sandhya Balaram

Sandhya Balaram is a Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) healthcare provider based in Brooklyn, New York. This provider has been registered with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) since 10/17/2005. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) number assigned to this provider is 1215926837.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments database, Sandhya Balaram has received a total of $4,359 in payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with $254.73 received in 2024. These payments were reported across 56 transactions from 8 companies. The most common payment nature is "Food and Beverage" ($3,176).

As a Medicare-enrolled provider, Balaram has provided services to 58 Medicare beneficiaries, totaling 59 services with total Medicare billing of $10,688. Data is available for 3 years (2020–2022), covering 3 distinct procedure/service records.

Practice Information

Products in Payments

  • Mitra Clip system (Device) $1,662
  • ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM (Device) $629.12
  • AtriCure AtriClip LAA Exclusion System (Device) $377.30
  • ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM (Device) $340.99
  • ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM (Device) $290.51
  • MITRACLIP (Device) $233.91
  • ATRICLIP PRO2 (Device) $105.54
  • ACM1, CRYO2 (Device) $87.95
  • Hercules (Device) $87.49
  • COOK (Device) $67.34
  • ACC2 CARDIAC CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM (Device) $61.20
  • PREVELEAK (Device) $46.26
  • FLOSEAL (Biological) $43.31
  • EPIC (Device) $42.97
  • ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2) (Device) $39.83
  • Harmonic (Device) $26.12
  • Cobra Fusion Ablation System (Device) $26.09
  • Impella (Device) $24.61
  • ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (Device) $23.63
  • Cook Medical Angioplasty (Device) $14.25

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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