Andrea Tackett, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · San Luis Obispo, CANPI 1215138789
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 20 payments — averaging $94.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$189
- Heartflow, Inc.$80
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$40
- Abbott$38
- Edwards Lifesciences$31
- plus $60 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$98252%
- Food & beverage$89848%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $1,444 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $189 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Abbott | 2 | $38 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $31 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $26 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $3 |
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.
- WATCHMAN Access System$1,321
- OPTIMIZER$114
How this compares
$1,880 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th 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 | 107 | $120,220 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 78 | $90,779 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 57 | $60,670 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 35 | $39,373 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 11 | $6,235 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 250 | $2,955 |
| Digoxin | 47 | $1,624 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 107 | $1,586 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 18 | $1,472 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 79 | $1,311 |
| Carvedilol | 111 | $1,175 |
| Potassium Chloride | 28 | $1,038 |
| Ezetimibe | 23 | $1,025 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 52 | $990 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 108 | $982 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in San Luis Obispo
- 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
- Farhad RafiiWest Hills$3.2M
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.