Mario Garcia, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · New York, NYNPI 1669567210
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 28 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $726 and has fallen 59.2% since, to $296 in 2025.
Across 28 payments — averaging $88.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Heartflow, Inc.$415
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$314
- Amgen$276
- Boston Scientific$243
- Medtronic$201
- Abiomed$150
- plus $868 from 10 others
Across 14 payments — averaging $14,422 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.
- Philips North America LLC$162K
- Novartis$36K
- Amgen$3K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,465100%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Heartflow, Inc. | 3 | $415 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $314 |
| Amgen | 4 | $276 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $243 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $201 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $150 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Abbott | 2 | $125 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Novartis | 1 | $114 |
| Spacelabs Healthcare Inc | 1 | $39 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $27 |
| PBG Puerto Rico LLC | 1 | $21 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Carto 3$365
- FFRct$278
- CAMZYOS$243
- Repatha$242
- CoreValve Evolut$201
- WATCHMAN Access System$150
- Impella$150
- NEXLIZET$148
- NEXLETOL$148
- Rivacor$137
- Solia$137
- Acticor$137
- BioMonitor$137
- Edora$137
- Lasers$124
- NUVISION ICE CATHETER$122
- OCTARAY MAPPING CATHETER$122
- ENTRESTO$114
- JOT DX$107
How this compares
$2,465 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.
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 | 146 | $164,319 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 87 | $86,720 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 24 | $34,267 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 20 | $32,335 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 37 | $31,351 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 50 | $28,412 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 20 | $18,353 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 15 | $15,663 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 252 | $3,756 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 307 | $3,509 |
| Losartan Potassium | 265 | $2,458 |
| Ezetimibe | 83 | $2,256 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 136 | $2,249 |
| Labetalol Hcl | 56 | $2,169 |
| Nitroglycerin | 61 | $1,566 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| NovartisEntresto | $114 | $86,72087 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 55th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.
Other cardiovascular disease in New York
- Roger HajjarNew York$5.2M
- Gregg StoneNew York$2M
- Philippe GenereuxNew York$1.3M
- Adam RosenbluthNew York$1.1M
- Megha PrasadNew York$813K
- Eyal HerzogNew York$645K
- Nisha JhalaniNew York$443K
- Roxana MehranNew York$432K
- Howard WeintraubNew York$328K
- Anuradha Lala-TrindadeNew York$324K
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.