Kevin Steel, DO
Cardiovascular Disease · Bellingham, WANPI 1578624979
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,802 of the $11,795 with a category attached, or 66.1%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Inc. at 31.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,724 and has fallen 94.4% since, to $322 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 33 payments — averaging $357.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Inc.$4K
- Bayer$3K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$740
- Heartflow, Inc.$349
- plus $272 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,80266%
- Travel & lodging$2,50221%
- Food & beverage$1,49113%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Circle Cardiovascular Imaging Inc. | 1 | $3,750 |
| Bayer | 1 | $3,312 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $2,074 |
| Abbott | 8 | $1,299 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $740 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 5 | $349 |
| Canon Medical Informatics, Inc. | 1 | $159 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $23 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $13 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $13 |
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.
- WATCHMAN Access System$1,893
- MitraClip System$1,058
- Vitrea Advanced Visualization$159
- MitraClip$138
- FFRct$134
How this compares
$11,795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 370 cardiovascular disease providers in Washington.
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 | 201 | $231,642 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 70 | $71,618 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 23 | $37,539 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 13 | $19,083 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 22 | $18,857 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 250 | $4,794 |
| Potassium Chloride | 78 | $1,931 |
| Carvedilol | 112 | $1,919 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 74 | $1,855 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 59 | $1,807 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 38 | $1,798 |
| Losartan Potassium | 103 | $1,188 |
| Lisinopril | 73 | $1,012 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 96 | $821 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 38 | $761 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $23 | $71,61870 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 90th percentile of 370 cardiovascular disease providers in Washington.
Other cardiovascular disease in Bellingham
- Rajesh BholaBellingham$24K
- Paul ConnorBellingham$9K
- Robert BersinBellevue$657K
- Mariko HarperSeattle$246K
- Gary OppenheimSeattle$153K
- Kelley BranchSeattle$103K
- Munish Kumar KannabhiranRichland$85K
- Erik WissnerSeattle$67K
- Younghoon KwonSeattle$66K
- Thomas AmidonBellevue$64K
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.