RxDoctor Payments Data

Cyrus Buhari, DO

Interventional Cardiology · Stockton, CANPI 1679581268

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $124,475 of the $170,486 with a category attached, or 73.0%. Medtronic accounts for 78.4% of it on its own, with 53 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $37,258 and has fallen 63.6% since, to $13,563 in 2025. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$170,486in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,119 payments — averaging $152.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$134K
  • Biotronik Inc.$8K
  • Abbott$7K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$6K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
  • plus $13K from 48 others
$153,285in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $3005.60 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$148K
  • Cathworks, Inc.$5K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,9003%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$124,47573%
  • Travel & lodging$13,5378%
  • Food & beverage$27,34616%
  • Education$1010%
  • Other$1280%

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

$170,486 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,047,897
Medicare patients
1,195
Services billed
11,898

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
EliquisApixaban712$779,878
JardianceEmpagliflozin418$444,985
XareltoRivaroxaban262$306,471
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan236$301,834
OzempicSemaglutide181$178,898
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab213$161,254
BrilintaTicagrelor95$73,154
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl79$54,642
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol48$52,025
Icosapent Ethyl114$44,802
Atorvastatin Calcium1,785$22,300
VerquvoVericiguat11$22,004
Metoprolol Succinate1,301$21,095
Ranolazine ErRanolazine105$14,666
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate802$11,858

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$889$779,878712 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Pradaxa$1,077$447,445430 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,436$306,471262 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,011$301,834236 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$463$178,898181 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$452$125,179143 claims
MerckVerquvo$607$22,00411 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 90th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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