Ernest Amegashie, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Hagerstown, MDNPI 1881788677
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 334 payments — averaging $16.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$653
- Novartis$618
- Amgen$475
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$471
- Merck$441
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$358
- plus $2K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,417100%
- Education$120%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 32 | $653 |
| Novartis | 39 | $618 |
| Amgen | 28 | $475 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 39 | $471 |
| Merck | 27 | $441 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 20 | $358 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 17 | $322 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 34 | $301 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $257 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 15 | $254 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 14 | $250 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 7 | $133 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $101 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $85 |
| Bayer | 3 | $77 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $46 |
| Preventice Services, LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $36 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $36 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $31 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $25 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $13 |
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.
- XARELTO$102
How this compares
$5,429 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 507 cardiovascular disease providers in Maryland.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 502 | $562,952 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 259 | $331,572 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 140 | $183,729 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 59 | $50,146 |
| NexletolBempedoic Acid | 36 | $28,605 |
| VerquvoVericiguat | 17 | $23,301 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 18 | $21,397 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 19 | $12,817 |
| Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate | 37 | $10,320 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 681 | $9,283 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 474 | $6,331 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 78 | $5,874 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 224 | $4,807 |
| Olmesartan Medoxomil | 87 | $3,838 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 160 | $3,358 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $257 | $562,952502 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $653 | $331,572259 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $618 | $183,729140 claims |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexletol | $358 | $28,60536 claims |
| MerckVerquvo | $441 | $23,30117 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $46 | $21,39718 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 507 cardiovascular disease providers in Maryland.
Other cardiovascular disease in Hagerstown
- Christopher VaccariHagerstown$31K
- Christopher DefilippiBaltimore$9.2M
- Thorsten LeuckerBaltimore$7.1M
- Joao LimaBaltimore$5.6M
- Jeffrey ColeBaltimore$4.8M
- Carlos InceBaltimore$3M
- Paul GurbelBaltimore$2.6M
- Navin KapurBaltimore$1.8M
- Vineet VenugopalLanham$1.5M
- Robert WeissBaltimore$1.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.