RxDoctor Payments Data

Kashyap Patel, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Atlanta, GANPI 1306899422

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,178in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 171 payments — averaging $24.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$517
  • Amgen$501
  • Johnson & Johnson$364
  • Pfizer$294
  • Biotronik Inc.$229
  • Novartis$216
  • plus $2K from 29 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$211%
  • Food & beverage$4,14099%
  • Education$170%

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

$4,178 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$426,307
Medicare patients
2,511
Services billed
7,928

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
EliquisApixaban411$497,760
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab79$105,094
XareltoRivaroxaban74$70,262
MultaqDronedarone Hcl20$26,487
Praluent PenAlirocumab20$25,189
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan27$21,036
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$13,563
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab17$12,669
Ranolazine ErRanolazine107$9,153
Metoprolol Succinate617$8,884
BrilintaTicagrelor13$8,061
Flecainide Acetate128$6,272
Diltiazem 12hr ErDiltiazem Hcl18$4,563
Nebivolol Hcl62$4,454
Rosuvastatin Calcium400$4,271

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$294$497,760411 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$364$70,26274 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$15$26,48720 claims
NovartisEntresto$216$21,03627 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$25$13,56313 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$90$8,06113 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 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

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