Andre Akhondi
Cardiovascular Disease · Thousand Oaks, CANPI 1205000890
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 282 payments — averaging $71.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$8K
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Medtronic$4K
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$2K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$218
- Corindus Inc.$183
- plus $971 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,55013%
- Food & beverage$17,59287%
- Other$330%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 71 | $7,559 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 129 | $5,197 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 48 | $3,581 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 16 | $2,467 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $218 |
| Corindus Inc. | 2 | $183 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $180 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $123 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 2 | $91 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $50 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $33 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $27 |
| Novartis | 1 | $24 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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.
- OPTIMIZER$3,981
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$1,707
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,235
- PRESSUREWIRE$994
- Xience V coronary stent system$849
- CoreValve Evolut$826
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$700
- Dragonfly OCT$661
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$467
- COROFLOW$405
- XIENCE SKYPOINT$359
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$218
- 3F$182
- NC TREK NEO$180
- Perclose ProStyle$179
- Diamondback Coronary$179
- OPTIS$178
- SelectSecure$173
- Emerge Push$166
- Merlin Connectivity and Remote$164
How this compares
$20,175 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 260 | $329,738 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 182 | $203,078 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 121 | $146,809 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 31 | $35,742 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 34 | $35,693 |
| Repatha SyringeEvolocumab | 34 | $30,353 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 34 | $29,925 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 20 | $10,514 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 432 | $7,116 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 548 | $5,880 |
| Ezetimibe | 159 | $5,317 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 307 | $5,155 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 225 | $3,836 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 29 | $3,759 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 426 | $3,341 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $123 | $146,809121 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $24 | $35,74231 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 80th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Other cardiovascular disease in Thousand Oaks
- Irving LohThousand Oaks$1.1M
- Ted LoveHillsborough$102.8M
- Matthew BudoffTorrance$11.3M
- Lori DanielsSan Diego$10.2M
- Paul KurthSanta Barbara$6.1M
- Michael BlumSan Francisco$5.5M
- Tony ChouSan Francisco$5.2M
- Jason RogersSacramento$5.1M
- Yu-Ping WangStanford$3.8M
- Yogesh PaliwalPomona$3.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.