RxDoctor Payments Data

Gholamreza Vafadouste, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Turlock, CANPI 1164470639

Payments from drug & device makers

$533in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $20.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$298
  • Abbott$120
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$39
  • Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$27
  • Johnson & Johnson$19
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$18
  • plus $12 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$533100%

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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21

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.

How this compares

$533 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
$656,547
Medicare patients
1,406
Services billed
4,834

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
EliquisApixaban35$46,490
Chlorzoxazone13$25,191
Naproxen-Esomeprazole MagNaproxen/Esomeprazole Mag14$20,747
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$20,367
Dihydroergotamine Mesylate13$17,248
XareltoRivaroxaban17$14,359
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab12$7,581
Ezetimibe11$1,453
Rosuvastatin Calcium21$967
Metolazone18$910
Metoprolol Succinate55$857
Flecainide Acetate19$812
Losartan Potassium55$737
Atorvastatin Calcium55$632
Digoxin18$333

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$12$46,49035 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$19$14,35917 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 Turlock

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