Laith Alkukhun, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Portland, ORNPI 1952721060
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $10,034 of the $16,491 with a category attached, or 60.8%. Medtronic accounts for 60.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $7,280 and has fallen 84.8% since, to $1,107 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in OR 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 137 payments — averaging $120.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$10K
- Biotronik Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Philips North America LLC$1K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$764
- Abbott$416
- plus $456 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$10,03461%
- Food & beverage$5,99936%
- Education$4583%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 90 | $9,978 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 4 | $1,948 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $1,798 |
| Philips North America LLC | 6 | $1,130 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 13 | $764 |
| Abbott | 3 | $416 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $276 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $94 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $71 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 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.
- Micra$1,555
- Arctic Front$1,066
- Carto 3$583
- (9124) LM Undivided$510
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$452
- ENSITE PRECISION$286
- ENSITE$130
- Claria MRI$109
- Farapulse$107
How this compares
$16,491 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 198 cardiovascular disease providers in Oregon.
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 | 91 | $75,290 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 15 | $15,633 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 54 | $3,665 |
| Colchicine | 27 | $2,395 |
| Dofetilide | 12 | $1,658 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 65 | $1,082 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 58 | $688 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 16 | $525 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 28 | $183 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 42 | $146 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 12 | $97 |
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 | $71 | $75,29091 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 198 cardiovascular disease providers in Oregon.
Other cardiovascular disease in Portland
- Firas ZahrPortland$810K
- Scott ChadderdonPortland$282K
- Ahmad MasriPortland$227K
- Stephen HeitnerPortland$105K
- Abhushan PoudyalPortland$54K
- Douglas DawleyPortland$45K
- Kishor KhanalPortland$39K
- Jeffrey MarbachPortland$19K
- Tyler GluckmanPortland$15K
- Sylvia Marie BisoPortland$14K
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.