RxDoctor Payments Data

Ayman Karkoutly, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Lubbock, TXNPI 1477583052

Payments from drug & device makers

$12,369in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 298 payments — averaging $41.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$7K
  • Penumbra, Inc.$2K
  • Novartis$788
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$572
  • AstraZeneca$557
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$260
  • plus $1K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,00032%
  • Travel & lodging$2,53020%
  • Food & beverage$5,63946%
  • Education$2002%

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

$12,369 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$708,085
Medicare patients
422
Services billed
22,706

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
EliquisApixaban203$164,561
JardianceEmpagliflozin48$63,543
Ranolazine ErRanolazine960$60,804
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate53$50,325
BrilintaTicagrelor58$39,743
MultaqDronedarone Hcl27$37,815
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan45$32,489
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol27$30,216
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl25$19,596
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter29$19,568
TrulicityDulaglutide14$14,879
OzempicSemaglutide11$10,297
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate783$9,177
XareltoRivaroxaban16$8,853
Potassium Chloride425$8,538

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$14$164,561203 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga, Symbicort$557$77,090103 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$572$63,54348 claims
MerckJanuvia$243$50,32553 claims
NovartisEntresto$788$32,48945 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$129$8,85316 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 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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