RxDoctor Payments Data

Felice Lin, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Fresno, CANPI 1750646501

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,766in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 70 payments — averaging $53.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abiomed$1K
  • Abbott$844
  • Novartis$514
  • Medtronic$183
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$178
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$107
  • plus $624 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,10029%
  • Food & beverage$2,66771%

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

$3,766 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 111 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$114,711
Medicare patients
1,438
Services billed
2,380

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan87$129,508
JardianceEmpagliflozin91$105,081
EliquisApixaban56$59,851
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$14,840
Bumetanide36$1,846
Metoprolol Succinate89$1,318
Atorvastatin Calcium79$642
Spironolactone71$599
Rosuvastatin Calcium21$417
Furosemide83$410
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate15$384
Carvedilol41$361
Losartan Potassium28$342
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate20$207
Metoprolol Tartrate14$91

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
NovartisEntresto$514$129,50887 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$107$105,08191 claims
PfizerEliquis$92$59,85156 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$15$14,84019 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 25th percentile of 111 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in California.

Other advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in Fresno

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