Joseph Imsais, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Austin, TXNPI 1902096555
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 795 payments — averaging $78.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bolton Medical Inc$29K
- Penumbra, Inc.$8K
- Endologix LLC$4K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$3K
- Philips North America LLC$2K
- Abbott$1K
- plus $16K from 54 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,4009%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,7008%
- Travel & lodging$4,9378%
- Food & beverage$32,54752%
- Education$14,73324%
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.
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.
- Grafts$10,961
- Relay Grafts$7,679
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$4,650
- Indigo System$3,940
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$3,086
- Indigo$2,385
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$1,708
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$1,566
- AFX$1,356
- ENDOCROSS Device$989
- Torus Stent Graft System$989
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$737
- Xience V coronary stent system$683
- Ovation$600
- Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$579
- Impella$569
- ClosureFast$450
- Cardiva VASCADE MVP VVCS 6-12F$348
- Relay Plus$347
- BioMimics 3D Vascular Stent System$338
How this compares
$62,317 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 | 571 | $674,993 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 217 | $239,266 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 263 | $199,916 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 147 | $190,492 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 65 | $92,715 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 68 | $76,308 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 42 | $44,665 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 40 | $31,584 |
| Ezetimibe | 669 | $17,699 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 15 | $15,549 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 12 | $15,102 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 952 | $14,883 |
| Repatha PushtronexEvolocumab | 12 | $12,087 |
| EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil | 12 | $10,650 |
| Repatha SyringeEvolocumab | 13 | $9,750 |
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 | $572 | $674,993571 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $229 | $239,266217 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $486 | $190,492147 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $1,098 | $92,71565 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $131 | $76,30868 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta | $571 | $76,25082 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $67 | $15,10212 claims |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi | $25 | $10,65012 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 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.
Other cardiovascular disease in Austin
- 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
- Fernando BoccalandroOdessa$3M
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.