Masis Babajanian, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Santa Rosa, CANPI 1609873850
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 413 payments — averaging $35.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Abbott$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$902
- Merck$722
- Novartis$620
- plus $5K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,2509%
- Food & beverage$13,44591%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 63 | $4,158 |
| Abbott | 43 | $2,484 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 9 | $1,047 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 33 | $902 |
| Merck | 23 | $722 |
| Novartis | 35 | $620 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 23 | $547 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 20 | $527 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 15 | $413 |
| Amgen | 14 | $387 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $370 |
| Bayer | 18 | $285 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 13 | $272 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $185 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 17 | $185 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $173 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 7 | $161 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 14 | $146 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $137 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $126 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $120 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $91 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $65 |
| Preventice Services, LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Gilead | 2 | $44 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $24 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $14 |
| Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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$2,178
- UPTRAVI$358
- OPSUMIT$358
- CardioMEMS HF System$354
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$254
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$252
- SelectSecure$252
- LifeVest$244
- CARDIOMEMS$222
- FFRct$185
- Reveal LINQ$167
- OPTIS$161
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$140
- Impella$126
- MitraClip$125
- Repatha$124
- MitraClip System$124
- NEXLIZET$121
- NEXLETOL$121
- ENTRESTO$116
How this compares
$14,701 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
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 | 667 | $866,362 |
| AdempasRiociguat | 48 | $645,287 |
| OpsumitMacitentan | 52 | $628,255 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 330 | $480,892 |
| UptraviSelexipag | 22 | $221,773 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 102 | $134,383 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 51 | $72,788 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 64 | $56,266 |
| Ambrisentan | 12 | $41,244 |
| Tadalafil | 22 | $27,757 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 23 | $21,608 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 11 | $17,808 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 15 | $17,352 |
| LivaloPitavastatin Calcium | 18 | $13,515 |
| Ezetimibe | 330 | $11,668 |
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 | $173 | $866,362667 claims |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Opsumit, Uptravi | $902 | $850,02874 claims |
| BayerAdempas | $285 | $645,28748 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $620 | $480,892330 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $137 | $134,383102 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $185 | $72,78851 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Crestor | $120 | $23,55136 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $91 | $17,80811 claims |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo | $161 | $13,51518 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 75th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.
Other cardiovascular disease in Santa Rosa
- Stephen HalpernSanta Rosa$1.2M
- Ted LoveHillsborough$102.8M
- Matthew BudoffTorrance$11.3M
- Lori DanielsSan Diego$10.2M
- Paul KurthSanta Barbara$6.1M
- Michael BlumSan Francisco$5.5M
- Tony ChouSan Francisco$5.2M
- Jason RogersSacramento$5.1M
- Yu-Ping WangStanford$3.8M
- Yogesh PaliwalPomona$3.3M
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.