RxDoctor Payments Data

Kenneth Saland, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Dallas, TXNPI 1336148550

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,489in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 140 payments — averaging $24.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$564
  • Boston Scientific$405
  • Pfizer$381
  • Heartflow, Inc.$362
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$239
  • Johnson & Johnson$144
  • plus $1K from 26 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,475100%
  • Education$140%

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

$3,489 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$365,577
Medicare patients
1,967
Services billed
4,635

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
EliquisApixaban196$207,177
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab61$53,628
XareltoRivaroxaban43$44,637
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan21$27,783
Praluent PenAlirocumab28$25,171
JardianceEmpagliflozin18$11,099
Losartan Potassium314$3,112
Clonidine41$3,095
Rosuvastatin Calcium239$2,232
Amlodipine Besylate229$1,620
Metoprolol Succinate106$1,614
Valsartan22$1,482
Carvedilol149$1,085
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate98$1,036
Atorvastatin Calcium113$982

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$381$207,177196 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$144$44,63743 claims
NovartisEntresto$564$27,78321 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$117$11,09918 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 15th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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