RxDoctor Payments Data

Atul Kukar, DO

Cardiovascular Disease · New York, NYNPI 1225054984

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,368in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 218 payments — averaging $70.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$3K
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$2K
  • Terumo Medical Corporation$1K
  • Boston Scientific$976
  • Cvrx, Inc.$778
  • Medtronic$770
  • plus $7K from 33 others
$750in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $750.00 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.

  • Inspiremd Ltd$750

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$15,350100%
  • Education$180%

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

$15,368 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$55,500
Medicare patients
169
Services billed
575

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan70$55,530
EliquisApixaban36$31,345
XareltoRivaroxaban13$13,960
Praluent PenAlirocumab16$7,234
Ezetimibe102$2,235
Metoprolol Succinate185$1,882
Atorvastatin Calcium176$1,562
Rosuvastatin Calcium58$904
Amlodipine Besylate256$827
Losartan Potassium74$609
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate64$513
Olmesartan-HydrochlorothiazideOlmesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide12$420
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate32$347
Nifedipine ErNifedipine15$299
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl13$219

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
NovartisEntresto$629$55,53070 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$355$13,96013 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 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

Other cardiovascular disease in New York

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