RxDoctor Payments Data

Arshad Yekta, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Norwalk, CTNPI 1497954044

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,590 of the $7,292 with a category attached, or 62.9%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.2%.

$7,292in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 152 payments — averaging $47.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$2K
  • Abbott$2K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$2K
  • Amgen$656
  • Novartis$327
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$212
  • plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1282%
  • Travel & lodging$2,50434%
  • Food & beverage$4,59063%
  • Education$701%

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

$7,292 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 73 interventional cardiology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$271,966
Medicare patients
2,223
Services billed
4,920

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
EliquisApixaban125$193,599
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol100$105,416
JardianceEmpagliflozin22$28,190
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan21$23,665
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab26$23,413
XareltoRivaroxaban22$22,738
BrilintaTicagrelor13$17,298
Rosuvastatin Calcium204$2,965
Metoprolol Succinate204$2,951
Nebivolol Hcl11$1,330
Amlodipine Besylate137$994
Torsemide43$916
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl30$894
Ezetimibe44$882
Losartan Potassium80$822

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$34$193,599125 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$169$122,714113 claims
NovartisEntresto$327$23,66521 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$156$22,73822 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 55th percentile of 73 interventional cardiology providers in Connecticut.

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