Jose Mendez-Martinez, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · El Paso, TXNPI 1952589970
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 384 payments — averaging $48.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$10K
- Abbott$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$819
- Novartis$726
- Boehringer Ingelheim$710
- Boston Scientific$684
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,92532%
- Food & beverage$12,37067%
- Education$2001%
- Other$740%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 104 | $10,300 |
| Abbott | 27 | $1,970 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 7 | $819 |
| Novartis | 51 | $726 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 36 | $710 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $684 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 30 | $523 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $496 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 29 | $470 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $275 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $215 |
| Philips North America LLC | 6 | $209 |
| Amgen | 11 | $192 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $119 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $104 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $75 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $74 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $62 |
| Bayer | 3 | $60 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $54 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $45 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 3 | $43 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $24 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $21 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| BD | 1 | $16 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$4,771
- CoreValve Evolut$1,620
- Simulus$753
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$645
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$394
- CARDIOMEMS$361
- Impella$254
- Quartet CRT Lead$137
- WATCHMAN Access System$137
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$133
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$130
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$119
- XARELTO$115
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$115
- CardioMEMS HF System$113
- Watchman$112
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$109
- Durata Defibrillation ICD Lead$102
How this compares
$18,569 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.
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 | 268 | $388,175 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 68 | $85,202 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 59 | $79,429 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 42 | $37,533 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 28 | $28,012 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 207 | $2,994 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 16 | $2,581 |
| Carvedilol | 266 | $1,483 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 166 | $1,480 |
| Losartan Potassium | 192 | $1,416 |
| Lisinopril | 156 | $1,368 |
| Candesartan Cilexetil | 22 | $1,307 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 110 | $1,287 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 187 | $1,087 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 18 | $1,022 |
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 | $275 | $388,175268 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $726 | $85,20268 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $470 | $79,42959 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $75 | $37,53342 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $710 | $28,01228 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 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.
Other cardiovascular disease in El Paso
- David TurbayEl Paso$1.7M
- Ramin Farzaneh-FarDallas$17.1M
- Jeffrey GladdenDallas$15.8M
- Ann NavarDallas$14.5M
- David BrabhamAmarillo$11.5M
- Justin GrodinDallas$6.2M
- Christie BallantyneHouston$4.6M
- Syed NaqviHouston$3.6M
- Faisal WahidMcKinney$3.4M
- James FeldmanHouston$3.1M
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.