RxDoctor Payments Data

Kevin Kheder, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Newport Beach, CANPI 1033597885

Payments from drug & device makers

$21,728in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 308 payments — averaging $70.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$7K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$5K
  • Abiomed$2K
  • Abbott$2K
  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • Biotronik Inc.$635
  • plus $4K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,86922%
  • Grants$4,00018%
  • Travel & lodging$1,2196%
  • Food & beverage$11,19152%
  • Education$4492%

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

$21,728 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$408,549
Medicare patients
595
Services billed
3,561

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
EliquisApixaban110$134,727
XareltoRivaroxaban17$20,013
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol14$15,014
Bumetanide16$1,646
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate91$1,216
Midodrine Hcl12$1,106
Atorvastatin Calcium74$1,065
Rosuvastatin Calcium42$826
Metoprolol Tartrate71$613
Metoprolol Succinate41$583
Carvedilol45$438
Losartan Potassium52$335
Amlodipine Besylate71$316
Ezetimibe12$282
Amiodarone Hcl18$238

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$279$134,727110 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$67$20,01317 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$75$15,01414 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 65th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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