John Heath, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Austin, MNNPI 1881697985
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 128 payments — averaging $50.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$4K
- Novartis$708
- Amgen$361
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$162
- Johnson & Johnson$149
- Boston Scientific$114
- plus $703 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,22599%
- Education$141%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $4,279 |
| Novartis | 35 | $708 |
| Amgen | 22 | $361 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $162 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $149 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $114 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 9 | $110 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $109 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $86 |
| Merck | 5 | $76 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $56 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $55 |
| Braemar Manufacturing, LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $31 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $21 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$6,476 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 341 | $468,545 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 189 | $209,671 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 70 | $88,894 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 47 | $62,245 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 52 | $60,853 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 640 | $10,602 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 19 | $5,570 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 330 | $5,184 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 219 | $4,324 |
| Ezetimibe | 168 | $4,309 |
| Losartan Potassium | 243 | $3,927 |
| Carvedilol | 150 | $2,371 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 205 | $2,102 |
| Irbesartan | 32 | $1,328 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 42 | $1,293 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $109 | $468,545341 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $149 | $88,89470 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $708 | $62,24547 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 60th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.
Other cardiovascular disease in Austin
- Jae OhRochester$7.9M
- Yogesh ReddyRochester$7.9M
- Mayra GuerreroRochester$7.1M
- Martha GroganRochester$6.3M
- Leslie ForgoshSaint Paul$6.2M
- Jeffrey ChambersMinneapolis$3.6M
- Mackram EleidRochester$3.5M
- David HolmesRochester$2.4M
- Mohamad Adnan AlkhouliRochester$2.1M
- Srijoy MahapatraRochester$2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.