RxDoctor Payments Data

Jivan Melikian, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Glendale, CANPI 1285705905

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,484in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $42.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$2K
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$1K
  • Amgen$376
  • Novartis$212
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$176
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$125
  • plus $372 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,484100%

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

$4,484 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$531,051
Medicare patients
1,330
Services billed
5,624

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin533$346,396
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe462$204,286
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan262$182,869
EliquisApixaban268$178,963
XareltoRivaroxaban203$133,287
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol200$120,639
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl177$67,848
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab96$66,779
OzempicSemaglutide44$49,605
MounjaroTirzepatide25$34,663
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol60$30,188
Icosapent Ethyl90$15,062
Praluent PenAlirocumab27$13,358
TradjentaLinagliptin16$12,541
Metoprolol Succinate1,211$6,468

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$176$358,937549 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet$1,222$204,286462 claims
NovartisEntresto$212$182,869262 claims
PfizerEliquis$72$178,963268 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$107$133,287203 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 55th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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