Kurt Prins, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1730446873
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,685 of the $9,271 with a category attached, or 72.1%. Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. accounts for 80.6% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,603 and has fallen 83.3% since, to $1,267 in 2025.
Across 25 payments — averaging $370.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$7K
- Merck$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$495
- Abbott$23
- Bayer$16
Across 7 payments — averaging $35,809 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Bayer$150K
- United Therapeutics Corporation$101K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,68572%
- Travel & lodging$1,94721%
- Food & beverage$6397%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 10 | $7,470 |
| Merck | 11 | $1,267 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $495 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Bayer | 1 | $16 |
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
$9,271 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OpsumitMacitentan | 114 | $1,405,403 |
| Tyvaso DpiTreprostinil | 55 | $1,319,239 |
| UptraviSelexipag | 33 | $820,009 |
| AdempasRiociguat | 57 | $774,985 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 38 | $46,044 |
| EliquisApixaban | 18 | $31,599 |
| Tadalafil | 56 | $17,939 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 17 | $14,361 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 12 | $9,975 |
| Sildenafil Citrate | 62 | $3,138 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 32 | $370 |
| Losartan Potassium | 17 | $331 |
| Furosemide | 28 | $257 |
| JantovenWarfarin Sodium | 18 | $96 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Opsumit, Uptravi | $7,470 | $2,225,411147 claims |
| BayerAdempas | $16 | $774,98557 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 70th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.
Other cardiovascular disease in Minneapolis
- Jeffrey ChambersMinneapolis$3.2M
- Markus MeyerMinneapolis$786K
- Robert SchwartzMinneapolis$502K
- Robert VantasselMinneapolis$493K
- Nedaa SkeikMinneapolis$453K
- Joao CavalcanteMinneapolis$384K
- Inderjit AnandMinneapolis$384K
- David HurrellMinneapolis$205K
- Yader Sandoval PichardoMinneapolis$157K
- Charles HerzogMinneapolis$157K
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.