Leslie Forgosh, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Saint Paul, MNNPI 1154305738
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $7,189 of the $8,482 with a category attached, or 84.8%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Eli Lilly at 38.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,264 and has fallen 68.9% since, to $1,014 in 2025.
Across 51 payments — averaging $166.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly$3K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$1K
- Bayer$1K
- Merck$1K
- Amgen$1K
- Boston Scientific$163
- plus $23 from 1 others
Across 379 payments — averaging $16,289 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.
- Novartis$2.2M
- Amgen$1.8M
- Eli Lilly$1.4M
- AstraZeneca$315K
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$211K
- Bayer$120K
- plus $249K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,18985%
- Food & beverage$1,29315%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly | 18 | $3,264 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 8 | $1,456 |
| Bayer | 9 | $1,378 |
| Merck | 7 | $1,157 |
| Amgen | 6 | $1,042 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $163 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $23 |
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 FLX$140
How this compares
$8,482 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 239 | $300,452 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 138 | $123,988 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 40 | $60,583 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 17 | $32,097 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 12 | $15,978 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 212 | $4,423 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 263 | $4,120 |
| Losartan Potassium | 179 | $2,398 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 175 | $1,836 |
| Carvedilol | 83 | $1,799 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 57 | $1,725 |
| Lisinopril | 143 | $1,674 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 100 | $1,617 |
| Bumetanide | 35 | $1,503 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 141 | $1,445 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Saint Paul
- Thomas BiggsSaint Paul$244K
- Pierce VatterottSaint Paul$146K
- Spencer KuboSaint Paul$134K
- Johannes BrechtkenSaint Paul$100K
- Nishtha SodhiSaint Paul$50K
- Jeffrey ChambersMinneapolis$3.2M
- Srijoy MahapatraRochester$1.2M
- Markus MeyerMinneapolis$786K
- Robert SchwartzMinneapolis$502K
- Robert VantasselMinneapolis$493K
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.