Francisco Cota, MD
Interventional Cardiology · El Paso, TXNPI 1598992190
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 438 payments — averaging $23.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Novartis$955
- Johnson & Johnson$425
- Boehringer Ingelheim$422
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,10499%
- Other$741%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 78 | $2,322 |
| Abbott | 43 | $2,152 |
| Boston Scientific | 68 | $1,046 |
| Novartis | 77 | $955 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 22 | $425 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 23 | $422 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 23 | $370 |
| Amgen | 20 | $359 |
| Merck | 18 | $334 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 10 | $269 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $201 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 2 | $168 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 5 | $158 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $150 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $131 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $129 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $76 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $74 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| BD | 2 | $48 |
| Gilead | 3 | $41 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $31 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Bayer | 1 | $19 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $18 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Micra$574
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$401
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$245
- Quartet CRT Lead$137
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$133
- Confirm Rx$132
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$129
- Allure CRT Pacemaker$126
- Carnation Ambulatory Monitor$125
- XARELTO$115
- Merlin Connectivity and Remote$115
- Cobalt$112
How this compares
$10,178 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.
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 | 252 | $381,080 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 76 | $112,352 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 30 | $45,232 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 22 | $24,526 |
| Repatha SyringeEvolocumab | 13 | $20,736 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 153 | $17,597 |
| Clonidine | 42 | $8,574 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 388 | $4,124 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 31 | $3,513 |
| Carvedilol | 414 | $3,187 |
| Losartan Potassium | 331 | $2,617 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 29 | $2,323 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 443 | $2,187 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 182 | $2,165 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 184 | $2,114 |
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 | $201 | $381,080252 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $425 | $112,35276 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $955 | $45,23230 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $31 | $24,52622 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 45th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.
Other interventional cardiology in El Paso
- Mohammad RajaEl Paso$319K
- Robert StolerDallas$8.2M
- James ChoiDallas$5.2M
- Srinivasa PotluriPlano$5.1M
- Neal KleimanHouston$4.8M
- Juan GranadaHouston$4.3M
- Ira LieberKingwood$3.3M
- Cara Ann EastDallas$3M
- Abhijeet DhobleHouston$2.7M
- Jeffrey CarrTyler$2.7M
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.