RxDoctor Payments Data

Jiken Bhatt, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · San Diego, CANPI 1972921088

Payments from drug & device makers

$68,605in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 496 payments — averaging $138.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$59K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
  • Boston Scientific$1000
  • Abbott$788
  • Pfizer$627
  • Merck$576
  • plus $5K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Grants$5005%
  • Food & beverage$9,82495%
  • Education$200%

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

$68,605 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,668,819
Medicare patients
1,876
Services billed
10,353

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
EliquisApixaban268$351,834
XareltoRivaroxaban131$174,001
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan68$93,127
JardianceEmpagliflozin64$90,190
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab59$56,553
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol44$52,519
BrilintaTicagrelor32$33,677
OzempicSemaglutide25$28,403
MultaqDronedarone Hcl13$25,839
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe18$20,773
Ezetimibe254$9,527
Valsartan218$8,829
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl11$8,766
Atorvastatin Calcium654$8,126
Rosuvastatin Calcium244$6,066

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$627$351,834268 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$294$174,001131 claims
NovartisEntresto$59,398$93,12768 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$224$90,19064 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$538$86,19676 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$345$28,40325 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$56$25,83913 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet$77$20,77318 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 85th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in San Diego

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