Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Inderpal Sarkaria

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Pittsburgh, PA Medical Doctor

NPI 1689827883 CMS profile 303977

5200 Centre Ave, Suite 715, Pittsburgh, PA 15232

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General payments

$248,035

445 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Inderpal Sarkaria of Pittsburgh, PA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $248,035 across 445 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $31,146 75
2024 General $26,318 21
2023 General $5,644 40
2022 General $45,200 71
2021 General $37,778 57
2020 General $26,386 43
2019 General $75,563 138

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Inderpal Sarkaria
  • Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median
  • Middle half of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Inderpal Sarkaria were reported at $31,146. Among 4,073 Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles paid that year, the median was $791 and the middle half received between $208 and $3,074.

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Year Inderpal Sarkaria Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) median Middle half National median
2019 $75,563 $886 $178–$3,167 $163
2020 $26,386 $341 $108–$1,605 $114
2021 $37,778 $453 $125–$1,886 $132
2022 $45,200 $695 $180–$2,566 $149
2023 $5,644 $745 $205–$2,662 $160
2024 $26,318 $799 $214–$2,967 $164
2025 $31,146 $791 $208–$3,074 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $178,402 303 payments
  2. Stryker Corporation $36,363 28 payments
  3. Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc. $13,345 1 payment
  4. Ethicon Inc. $6,418 10 payments
  5. Medtronic, Inc. $6,411 47 payments
  6. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $2,215 11 payments
  7. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,124 4 payments
  8. Pinnacle Biologics, Inc $1,096 16 payments
  9. Covidien LP $790 3 payments
  10. On Target Laboratories, Inc $671 6 payments
  11. Other $1,200 16 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Education $90,393 41 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $55,350 16 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $52,703 9 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $32,285 148 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $16,736 228 payments
  6. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $500 1 payment
  7. Gift $69 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Da Vinci Surgical System $173,902 301 payments
  2. 1788 $15,823 9 payments
  3. 1688 $13,500 1 payment
  4. SPY-PHI SYSTEM $8,439 7 payments
  5. Monarch Platform $5,883 3 payments
  6. ION $3,000 1 payment
  7. DA VINCI SP $1,500 1 payment
  8. L10 $1,476 10 payments
  9. Photofrin $1,096 16 payments
  10. GENERAL PULMONARY $850 1 payment
  11. Other $5,156 62 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 41 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$40,825

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

67

Average age 74

Services billed

144

36 women, 31 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 46%
COPD 42%
Ischemic heart disease 40%
Depression 34%
Cancer 33%
Osteoporosis 25%
Diabetes 24%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

445 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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