Kent Chen, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Phoenix, AZNPI 1174623144
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 258 payments — averaging $20.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$2K
- Pfizer$657
- Johnson & Johnson$535
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$299
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$277
- Amgen$220
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,17798%
- Education$1262%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 94 | $1,656 |
| Pfizer | 37 | $657 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 26 | $535 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 10 | $299 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 13 | $277 |
| Amgen | 11 | $220 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $210 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 8 | $200 |
| Abbott | 3 | $177 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $167 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $108 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $106 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $88 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $40 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Medicomp Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $15 |
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
$5,303 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.
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 | 900 | $984,908 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 133 | $167,458 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 102 | $129,233 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 89 | $83,481 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 66 | $72,624 |
| Valsartan | 726 | $24,070 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 1,355 | $21,419 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 23 | $16,489 |
| LivaloPitavastatin Calcium | 21 | $13,365 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 997 | $8,752 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 11 | $7,654 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 60 | $7,501 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 13 | $5,922 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 210 | $5,844 |
| Potassium Chloride | 247 | $4,920 |
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 | $657 | $984,908900 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $167 | $167,458133 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $535 | $129,233102 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga | $210 | $99,970112 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $1,656 | $72,62466 claims |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo | $15 | $13,36521 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 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.
Other cardiovascular disease in Phoenix
- Ashish GuptaPhoenix$1.2M
- Rajkumar SugumaranPhoenix$957K
- Robert ScottPhoenix$331K
- Julie RosenthalPhoenix$313K
- Tabitha MoePhoenix$256K
- Mehrdad SaririanPhoenix$158K
- Jesse SethiPhoenix$150K
- Adam SabbathPhoenix$109K
- Venkataramanan GangadharanPhoenix$97K
- Namit RohantPhoenix$83K
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.