RxDoctor Payments Data

Neel Kapasi, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Victorville, CANPI 1003131533

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,499in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 84 payments — averaging $17.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abiomed$339
  • Johnson & Johnson$286
  • Merck$283
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$224
  • Novartis$130
  • Pfizer$83
  • plus $155 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,46398%
  • Education$362%

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.

How this compares

$1,499 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$36,233
Medicare patients
852
Services billed
1,171

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
EliquisApixaban183$133,303
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan96$86,012
XareltoRivaroxaban94$84,204
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab13$6,792
Metoprolol Succinate288$2,030
Diltiazem 24hr Er (La)Diltiazem Hcl29$1,673
Chlorthalidone103$1,124
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl44$1,107
Furosemide207$902
Diltiazem 24hr ErDiltiazem Hcl24$816
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate86$693
Carvedilol178$620
Losartan Potassium76$473
Nitroglycerin34$465
Valsartan14$386

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$83$133,303183 claims
NovartisEntresto$130$86,01296 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$286$84,20494 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 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Victorville

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