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Amin Yehya, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Norfolk, VANPI 1376720946

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $254,796 of the $397,873 with a category attached, or 64.0%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merck at 24.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $140,000, 3.8 times the $37,261 reported in 2019. Among advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$397,873in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 496 payments — averaging $802.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$97K
  • Bayer$54K
  • Scpharmaceuticals Inc.$54K
  • Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$52K
  • AstraZeneca$32K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$27K
  • plus $82K from 17 others
$244,853in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 92 payments — averaging $2661.45 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Bayer$132K
  • Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$41K
  • Nuwellis, Inc.$35K
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$18K
  • Merck$11K
  • Novartis$8K
  • plus $530 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$87,83222%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$254,79664%
  • Travel & lodging$37,0609%
  • Food & beverage$17,7484%
  • Education$4370%

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

$397,873 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 43 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$150,624
Medicare patients
653
Services billed
1,698

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan493$549,571
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol428$437,612
CamzyosMavacamten24$193,691
JardianceEmpagliflozin120$123,661
FuroscixFurosemide25$106,184
VerquvoVericiguat81$83,966
EliquisApixaban53$54,983
XareltoRivaroxaban26$24,563
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol20$10,724
Bumetanide134$4,082
Metoprolol Succinate264$3,522
Tacrolimus20$3,519
Spironolactone426$2,779
Carvedilol332$2,722
Eplerenone38$2,296

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga$32,207$437,612428 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$238$123,661120 claims
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.Furoscix$53,786$106,18425 claims
MerckVerquvo$97,123$83,96681 claims
PfizerEliquis$15$54,98353 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 95th percentile of 43 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Virginia.

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