RxDoctor Payments Data

Ashit Patel, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Salem, ORNPI 1427276757

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (40.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 43 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 47.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $10,033 and has fallen 53.2% since, to $4,694 in 2025.

$36,103in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 436 payments — averaging $82.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$17K
  • Philips North America LLC$9K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Biotronik Inc.$2K
  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • Pfizer$653
  • plus $4K from 37 others
$6,507in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $1084.50 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Boston Scientific$6K
  • Abbott$1K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$14,71341%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,64813%
  • Travel & lodging$5,15214%
  • Food & beverage$11,38132%
  • Education$2111%

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

$36,103 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 37 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Oregon.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$322,388
Medicare patients
1,009
Services billed
4,048

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
EliquisApixaban1,061$1,204,211
XareltoRivaroxaban239$266,749
JardianceEmpagliflozin44$43,952
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan36$37,425
Flecainide Acetate478$17,527
Dofetilide51$10,672
Digoxin362$8,561
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab11$7,958
Praluent PenAlirocumab14$7,940
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate15$6,627
Metoprolol Succinate419$5,984
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl193$5,150
SotalolSotalol Hcl202$4,083
Candesartan Cilexetil31$3,801
Losartan Potassium222$2,965

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$653$1,204,2111,061 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$295$266,749239 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$300$43,95244 claims
NovartisEntresto$276$37,42536 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 37 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Oregon.

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