RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Byrne, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Watsonville, CANPI 1962411272

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,198in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 219 payments — averaging $23.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$595
  • Mylan Specialty L.p.$525
  • Bayer$512
  • Heartflow, Inc.$459
  • Amgen$339
  • Merck$310
  • plus $2K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,182100%
  • Education$160%

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

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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.

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

$5,198 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,060,216
Medicare patients
471
Services billed
12,468

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
MounjaroTirzepatide139$142,769
XareltoRivaroxaban109$117,099
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol114$103,889
JardianceEmpagliflozin68$83,676
EliquisApixaban62$72,030
OzempicSemaglutide70$61,545
KerendiaFinerenone46$53,514
RybelsusSemaglutide31$47,538
TrulicityDulaglutide43$39,499
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter56$37,794
MyrbetriqMirabegron30$26,668
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate26$23,181
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol49$22,564
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan27$21,618
WegovySemaglutide12$19,156

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$34$182,268182 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus, Wegovy$595$128,239113 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$43$117,099109 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$107$103,889114 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Spiriva Respimat$202$92,32285 claims
PfizerEliquis$112$72,03062 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$306$60,357105 claims
BayerKerendia$512$53,51446 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$17$26,66830 claims
MerckJanuvia$310$23,18126 claims
NovartisEntresto$149$21,61827 claims
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Rexulti$210$18,35912 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 35th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

Other interventional cardiology in Watsonville

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