RxDoctor Payments Data

Bina Ahmed, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1598821803

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,615in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $216.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • EKOS Corporation$9K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$447
  • Abbott$306
  • Novartis$282
  • Philips North America LLC$239
  • Medtronic$140
  • plus $603 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,015100%

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

$10,615 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$487,869
Medicare patients
1,356
Services billed
5,394

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
VyndamaxTafamidis21$730,883
EliquisApixaban288$387,985
XareltoRivaroxaban182$213,730
JardianceEmpagliflozin53$69,482
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol40$56,314
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab18$27,233
Metoprolol Succinate266$4,374
Atorvastatin Calcium370$4,351
Ezetimibe86$3,254
Losartan Potassium229$2,914
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl74$2,853
Rosuvastatin Calcium174$2,458
Amlodipine Besylate241$1,865
Carvedilol140$1,301
Potassium Chloride51$1,265

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
PfizerVyndamax, Eliquis$22$1,118,867309 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$28$69,48253 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$65$56,31440 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 50th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

Other interventional cardiology in Santa Barbara

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