Minisha Kochar, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Denver, CONPI 1396987822
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 13 payments — averaging $88.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$339
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$265
- Agepha Pharma FZ LLC$135
- AstraZeneca$125
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$121
- Bayer$87
- plus $83 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,155100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $339 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $265 |
| Agepha Pharma FZ LLC | 1 | $135 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Bayer | 1 | $87 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Amgen | 1 | $26 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
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.
- WATCHMAN FLX$174
- WATCHMAN Access System$165
- LODOCO$135
- SOLIRIS$125
- UPTRAVI$121
- OPSUMIT$121
- LifeVest$102
How this compares
$1,155 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 276 cardiovascular disease providers in Colorado.
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 | 25 | $21,037 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 17 | $13,408 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 14 | $8,513 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 134 | $1,273 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 46 | $707 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 58 | $641 |
| Losartan Potassium | 108 | $627 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 124 | $603 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 85 | $544 |
| Potassium Chloride | 39 | $484 |
| Ezetimibe | 21 | $400 |
| Furosemide | 72 | $323 |
| Carvedilol | 19 | $259 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 15 | $214 |
| Valsartan | 15 | $213 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Denver
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- Sameer MehtaDenver$107K
- Paul JurgensDenver$81K
- Michael BristowDenver$56K
- Sam RougasDenver$44K
- John RumsfeldDenver$24K
- Fady IskanderDenver$16K
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.