RxDoctor Payments Data

Adham Karim, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Oak Lawn, ILNPI 1184140410

Payments from drug & device makers

$14,074in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 142 payments — averaging $99.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$5K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Teleflex LLC$2K
  • Philips North America LLC$1K
  • Abiomed$1K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$886
  • plus $2K from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2502%
  • Travel & lodging$6,95049%
  • Food & beverage$6,44946%
  • Education$4253%

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$14,074 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 303 interventional cardiology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$41,639
Medicare patients
139
Services billed
295

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
JardianceEmpagliflozin28$35,133
BrilintaTicagrelor18$18,121
EliquisApixaban12$12,982
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab14$11,251
XareltoRivaroxaban13$7,173
Rosuvastatin Calcium93$1,811
Ezetimibe59$1,762
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate71$916
Ranolazine ErRanolazine14$709
Metoprolol Succinate57$672
Carvedilol25$315
Losartan Potassium31$303
Spironolactone24$291
Amlodipine Besylate39$185
Atorvastatin Calcium27$161

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AstraZenecaBrilinta$73$18,12118 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$41$7,17313 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 303 interventional cardiology providers in Illinois.

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