RxDoctor Payments Data

Ghassan Mohsen

Cardiovascular Disease · Ridgecrest, CANPI 1356579783

Payments from drug & device makers

$550in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $42.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$228
  • Biotronik Inc.$174
  • Pfizer$105
  • W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$30
  • Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$13

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$550100%

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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25

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

$550 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$198,092
Medicare patients
1,363
Services billed
3,469

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
EliquisApixaban749$988,486
XareltoRivaroxaban175$229,374
JardianceEmpagliflozin77$104,666
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan53$91,148
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol45$60,252
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab36$22,524
BrilintaTicagrelor12$15,428
Atorvastatin Calcium1,137$10,675
Praluent PenAlirocumab22$10,296
Metoprolol Succinate559$9,600
Ezetimibe199$8,237
Losartan Potassium738$7,116
Rosuvastatin Calcium240$5,260
Potassium Chloride225$5,038
Amlodipine Besylate915$4,822

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$105$988,486749 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 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Ridgecrest

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