RxDoctor Payments Data

Amit Keswani, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Nashville, TNNPI 1912166752

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,646in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 258 payments — averaging $29.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • Amgen$834
  • Penumbra, Inc.$660
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$490
  • Novartis$394
  • plus $3K from 25 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$5377%
  • Food & beverage$7,10993%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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

$7,646 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 207 interventional cardiology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$135,281
Medicare patients
993
Services billed
2,027

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
EliquisApixaban231$280,840
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan63$80,210
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab78$57,292
XareltoRivaroxaban38$51,238
BrilintaTicagrelor23$24,707
WegovySemaglutide12$20,894
Praluent PenAlirocumab29$18,132
Ranolazine ErRanolazine53$5,574
Atorvastatin Calcium433$4,900
Metoprolol Succinate235$3,804
Prasugrel Hcl26$3,214
Losartan Potassium257$2,849
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate181$2,467
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl81$2,411
Rosuvastatin Calcium107$1,816

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
NovartisEntresto$394$80,21063 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$23$51,23838 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$373$24,70723 claims
Novo NordiskWegovy$24$20,89412 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 45th percentile of 207 interventional cardiology providers in Tennessee.

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