RxDoctor Payments Data

Brydan Curtis, DO

Interventional Cardiology · Spokane, WANPI 1538396494

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (39.1%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 55.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,103 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $190 in 2023.

$4,530in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $161.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$3K
  • Pfizer$2K
  • Abbott$200
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$125
  • Edwards Lifesciences$110
  • Ancora Heart, Inc.$56
$145,989in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $2517.05 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.

  • Medtronic$115K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$31K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2004%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$1,50533%
  • Travel & lodging$1,05423%
  • Food & beverage$1,77139%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Medtronic(2 entities)21$2,533
Pfizer2$1,505
Abbott1$200
Shockwave Medical, Inc2$125
Edwards Lifesciences1$110
Ancora Heart, Inc.1$56

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

$4,530 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 125 interventional cardiology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$184,034
Medicare patients
653
Services billed
1,503

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
EliquisApixaban167$195,312
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab54$54,819
XareltoRivaroxaban43$54,553
JardianceEmpagliflozin45$38,395
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan17$16,695
Praluent PenAlirocumab13$9,312
Metoprolol Succinate284$4,618
Ranolazine ErRanolazine21$4,378
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate11$3,729
Atorvastatin Calcium246$3,453
Losartan Potassium226$2,574
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate148$2,373
Rosuvastatin Calcium123$2,150
Potassium Chloride116$1,748
Carvedilol174$1,665

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$1,505$195,312167 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 55th percentile of 125 interventional cardiology providers in Washington.

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