Arvind Bhimaraj, MD
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Houston, TXNPI 1275864878
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 654 payments — averaging $411.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$153K
- AstraZeneca$52K
- Abiomed$39K
- Pfizer$6K
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$6K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$5K
- plus $8K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$95,47444%
- Speaking & faculty fees$67,25031%
- Travel & lodging$24,40911%
- Food & beverage$28,88413%
- Education$350%
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 | 355 | $152,885 |
| AstraZeneca | 58 | $52,214 |
| Abiomed | 68 | $39,031 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $5,982 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 6 | $5,919 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $4,572 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 22 | $2,285 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 17 | $1,405 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 28 | $905 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $470 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $421 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $324 |
| Datascope Corp. | 5 | $323 |
| Amgen | 13 | $295 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $231 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 9 | $217 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $160 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Novartis | 5 | $138 |
| ZOLL Respicardia, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $96 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $92 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $86 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $79 |
| Kamada Ltd. | 1 | $76 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $39 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $18 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 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.
- FARXIGA$51,201
- CardioMEMS HF System$31,853
- CARDIOMEMS$30,042
- Impella$27,343
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$14,432
- HeartMate II LVAS$6,402
- VYNDAMAX$5,839
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$4,662
- THYMOGLOBULIN$4,572
- CARDIOSAVE HYBRID, TYPE B PLUG$3,200
- HeartMate$2,000
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$1,765
- OPTIMIZER$1,701
- Barostim Neo System$1,624
- CARDIOHELP$1,600
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$1,234
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$1,119
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$324
- SherpaPak$261
- LIVERguard$261
How this compares
$268,796 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 75 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Texas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| VyndamaxTafamidis | 52 | $1,504,355 |
| VyndaqelTafamidis Meglumine | 22 | $475,026 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 172 | $207,369 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 126 | $116,762 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 54 | $63,087 |
| EliquisApixaban | 61 | $47,082 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 11 | $15,486 |
| Voriconazole | 17 | $11,331 |
| Valganciclovir Hcl | 34 | $9,983 |
| Tacrolimus | 66 | $9,945 |
| Sildenafil Citrate | 29 | $5,370 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 28 | $4,606 |
| Torsemide | 103 | $3,603 |
| Eplerenone | 46 | $3,448 |
| Sirolimus | 18 | $3,397 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerVyndamax, Vyndaqel, Eliquis | $5,982 | $2,026,463135 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $138 | $207,369172 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $52,214 | $116,762126 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $96 | $63,08754 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $39 | $15,48611 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 75th percentile of 75 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Texas.
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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.