RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Sada, MD

Interventional Cardiology · San Luis Obispo, CANPI 1639157282

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,184in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 121 payments — averaging $59.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$3K
  • Abbott$2K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$625
  • Abiomed$569
  • Boston Scientific$407
  • GE HealthCare$159
  • plus $777 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,91241%
  • Food & beverage$4,27259%

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

$7,184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$533,288
Medicare patients
1,307
Services billed
5,618

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
EliquisApixaban560$714,017
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab199$205,836
JardianceEmpagliflozin114$141,000
XareltoRivaroxaban82$109,749
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan94$84,679
BrilintaTicagrelor72$42,127
Praluent PenAlirocumab33$36,806
Atorvastatin Calcium932$12,657
Metoprolol Succinate615$10,333
Ezetimibe307$7,672
Ranolazine ErRanolazine12$4,725
Rosuvastatin Calcium271$4,545
Amlodipine Besylate482$3,502
Losartan Potassium329$3,243
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate240$3,163

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
NovartisEntresto$69$84,67994 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 40th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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