RxDoctor Payments Data

Carlos Gonzalez Quesada, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Beverly Hills, CANPI 1356635478

Payments from drug & device makers

$31,699in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 78 payments — averaging $406.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Genentech, Inc.$26K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$1K
  • W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$511
  • Abbott$290
  • Amgen$198
  • plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,67847%
  • Food & beverage$2,97753%

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

$31,699 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,023,430
Medicare patients
373
Services billed
22,878

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
EliquisApixaban64$78,353
OzempicSemaglutide50$74,493
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab37$51,003
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan28$40,929
MounjaroTirzepatide30$37,442
Repatha PushtronexEvolocumab30$36,407
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol32$35,243
Praluent PenAlirocumab32$23,479
JardianceEmpagliflozin18$19,010
XareltoRivaroxaban17$17,791
Rosuvastatin Calcium245$4,277
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium21$1,819
Olmesartan Medoxomil70$1,150
Amlodipine Besylate129$1,123
Metoprolol Succinate79$1,094

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$95$78,35364 claims
NovartisEntresto$97$40,92928 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$146$37,44230 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$141$19,01018 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 70th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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