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

Sara Kalantari

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Chicago, IL Medical Doctor

NPI 1639498355 CMS profile 29491

5841 S Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL 60637

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General payments

$8,492

112 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, Sara Kalantari of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,492 across 112 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 53rd percentile of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology 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 $594 7
2024 General $2,889 10
2023 General $829 12
2022 General $901 17
2021 General $1,991 30
2020 General $447 15
2019 General $843 21

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Sara Kalantari
  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology median
  • Middle half of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Sara Kalantari were reported at $594. Among 967 Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,024 and the middle half received between $289 and $6,890.

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Year Sara Kalantari Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $843 $863 $224–$4,562 $163
2020 $447 $452 $122–$3,992 $114
2021 $1,991 $550 $159–$3,571 $132
2022 $901 $729 $221–$4,357 $149
2023 $829 $1,002 $309–$5,827 $160
2024 $2,889 $931 $273–$5,204 $164
2025 $594 $1,024 $289–$6,890 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $6,759 66 payments
  2. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $439 18 payments
  3. Abiomed $382 3 payments
  4. CVRx, Inc. $313 2 payments
  5. Paragonix Technologies, Inc. $138 2 payments
  6. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $102 5 payments
  7. Pfizer Inc. $96 5 payments
  8. BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. $45 1 payment
  9. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $39 2 payments
  10. ZOLL Circulation Inc $35 1 payment
  11. Other $144 7 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,377 103 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 $2,363 3 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $753 6 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. CARDIOMEMS $2,491 5 payments
  2. HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device $1,692 21 payments
  3. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT Heart failure $1,203 17 payments
  4. HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev $532 9 payments
  5. LifeVest $439 18 payments
  6. Impella $382 3 payments
  7. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT Structural Heart $367 3 payments
  8. CardioMEMS HF System $349 8 payments
  9. Barostim Neo System $313 2 payments
  10. LungGuard $138 2 payments
  11. Other $1,292 38 payments

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

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 8 drugs

Part D claims

186

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: 1,489

Drug cost

$373,919

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: $885,869

Branded share of claims

36%

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: 32.1%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Adempas Riociguat Brand 25 $325,484
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 29 $34,795
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 13 $12,511
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 16 $424
Spironolactone Generic 25 $223
Furosemide Generic 22 $184
Atorvastatin Calcium Generic 34 $161
Carvedilol Generic 22 $136

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 800 Part D prescribers listed as Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 19 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$60,638

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

1,113

Average age 71

Services billed

1,737

591 women, 522 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%
Heart failure 60%
Arthritis 55%
Ischemic heart disease 53%
Diabetes 52%
Chronic kidney disease 52%
Atrial fibrillation 43%
COPD 33%

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

112 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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