RxDoctor Payments Data

Hed Ahmadpour, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Lakewood, CANPI 1912093436

Payments from drug & device makers

$17,004in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 818 payments — averaging $20.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$2K
  • Abbott$2K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$2K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
  • Amgen$926
  • Merck$890
  • plus $8K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$17,004100%

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

$17,004 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$347,159
Medicare patients
1,017
Services billed
3,879

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin422$313,426
OzempicSemaglutide256$303,686
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan299$266,344
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol326$216,754
EliquisApixaban224$196,470
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab182$152,324
TrulicityDulaglutide143$144,814
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl339$139,573
XareltoRivaroxaban170$110,351
MounjaroTirzepatide90$97,872
MultaqDronedarone Hcl66$72,607
Praluent PenAlirocumab105$68,187
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe127$60,670
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol92$49,039
Icosapent Ethyl167$38,408

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
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$815$329,618281 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy$1,975$320,897435 claims
NovartisEntresto$2,016$266,344299 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$763$248,788393 claims
PfizerEliquis$343$196,470224 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$719$110,351170 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$323$72,60766 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet, Nexletol$554$67,907145 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi, Edarbyclor$15$31,61798 claims
MerckVerquvo$890$14,45018 claims
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inpefa$144$7,70713 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 75th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Lakewood

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