Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

ALOK SHARMA

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Interventional Cardiology

NPI
1750542049
CMS profile
1384021
Location
MINNEAPOLIS, MN

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$22,743.24

  • Reported across 221 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$1,746.88

19 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $892.54 14
Travel and Lodging $854.34 5

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Abbott Laboratories $1,013.63 11
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $208.15 2
ABIOMED $169.51 2
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION $152.80 2
Medtronic, Inc. $127.65 1
Gentuity, LLC $75.14 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,974.36 62
PY2019 $9,386.91 85
PY2020 $1,474.15 8
PY2021 $6,625.56 22
PY2022 $1,050.34 17
PY2023 $485.04 8
PY2024 $1,746.88 19

Payment records · PY2024 (19)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Abbott Laboratories $4.89 02/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125242915 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $79.45 04/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125242919 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $4.96 04/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125242923 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $32.68 08/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125242931 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $32.68 08/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125242935 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $25.12 08/14/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125431065 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $63.54 08/14/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125431067 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $4.63 08/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125242926 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $234.05 08/20/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125431063 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $522.61 08/21/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125431061 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $9.02 08/21/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125431069 CMS
ABIOMED $73.69 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142227971 CMS
ABIOMED $95.82 07/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142227983 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $47.75 03/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1092542284 CMS
Boston Scientific Corporation $105.05 04/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1092542286 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $118.97 03/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138784867 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $89.18 03/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138784871 CMS
Gentuity, LLC $75.14 11/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137960747 CMS
Medtronic, Inc. $127.65 10/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119468411 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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