RxDoctor Payments Data

Amir Sadrzadeh Rafie, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Glendale, CANPI 1508031949

Payments from drug & device makers

$161,666in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,181 payments — averaging $136.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Cleerly, Inc.$94K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$25K
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$16K
  • Abbott$5K
  • Boston Scientific$3K
  • Novartis$2K
  • plus $17K from 49 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$21,75042%
  • Grants$1450%
  • Travel & lodging$4,4669%
  • Food & beverage$25,28349%
  • Education$410%

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

$161,666 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,443,473
Medicare patients
2,641
Services billed
16,347

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
EliquisApixaban983$755,190
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan809$636,083
JardianceEmpagliflozin641$457,518
BrilintaTicagrelor326$187,559
OpsumitMacitentan11$138,947
XareltoRivaroxaban159$133,040
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab188$118,562
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol133$104,129
OzempicSemaglutide96$89,457
VerquvoVericiguat92$66,318
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl163$65,475
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate69$46,183
MultaqDronedarone Hcl46$38,266
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe60$26,415
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium51$23,122

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
PfizerEliquis$631$755,190983 claims
NovartisEntresto$2,440$636,083809 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$2,131$457,518641 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga, Crestor$1,749$295,494473 claims
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Opsumit$156$138,94711 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$677$133,040159 claims
MerckVerquvo, Januvia, Janumet$1,013$132,972187 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$742$89,45796 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$159$38,26646 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet, Nexletol$716$32,62176 claims
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo$281$23,12251 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 85th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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