RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Deluca, MD

Interventional Cardiology · El Paso, TXNPI 1053311936

Payments from drug & device makers

$20,241in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 451 payments — averaging $44.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$11K
  • Abbott$3K
  • Boston Scientific$879
  • Medtronic$828
  • Johnson & Johnson$762
  • AstraZeneca$631
  • plus $3K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,50022%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,75023%
  • Travel & lodging$7494%
  • Food & beverage$10,15950%
  • Education$840%

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

$20,241 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,117,647
Medicare patients
758
Services billed
8,079

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
EliquisApixaban497$606,822
XareltoRivaroxaban240$299,543
BrilintaTicagrelor57$54,021
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan36$46,695
MultaqDronedarone Hcl14$22,498
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab14$11,480
Metoprolol Succinate790$9,323
Carvedilol978$8,672
Ranolazine ErRanolazine60$7,050
Losartan Potassium575$6,001
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate527$5,758
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate486$5,336
SotalolSotalol Hcl197$5,024
Flecainide Acetate136$5,020
Nisoldipine14$4,750

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
PfizerEliquis$378$606,822497 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$762$299,543240 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$631$54,02157 claims
NovartisEntresto$607$46,69536 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 65th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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