RxDoctor Payments Data

Arvin Bansal, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Houston, TXNPI 1417278821

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,664in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $31.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$606
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$481
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$388
  • Novartis$275
  • Abbott$225
  • Medtronic$165
  • plus $525 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,664100%

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

$2,664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$236,725
Medicare patients
341
Services billed
2,031

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
EliquisApixaban139$186,844
XareltoRivaroxaban47$50,741
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$23,221
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$16,989
BrilintaTicagrelor17$13,884
Ranolazine ErRanolazine13$3,864
Amiodarone Hcl80$2,945
Metoprolol Succinate204$2,793
Nifedipine ErNifedipine97$2,646
Atorvastatin Calcium261$2,439
Clonidine20$2,074
Bumetanide55$1,719
Carvedilol193$1,407
Lisinopril160$1,246
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate107$1,214

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$41$186,844139 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$95$50,74147 claims
NovartisEntresto$275$23,22112 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$33$16,98912 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 15th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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