Nisha Bhatia, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Phoenix, AZNPI 1598733651
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 309 payments — averaging $33.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Novartis$942
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$861
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$831
- Amgen$785
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$673
- plus $5K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$9,96197%
- Education$3333%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $1,110 |
| Novartis | 67 | $942 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 35 | $861 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 43 | $831 |
| Amgen | 18 | $785 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 8 | $673 |
| Merck | 16 | $633 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $434 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $416 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $408 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 9 | $389 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $302 |
| Abbott | 9 | $293 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 3 | $271 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 2 | $260 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $253 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $248 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $209 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $176 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $149 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $135 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $127 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $111 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $108 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$645
- Indigo System$434
- UPTRAVI$393
- OPTIMIZER$379
- Repatha$331
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$323
- Impella$289
- OPSUMIT$268
- FFRct$260
- CAMZYOS$240
- Assure WCD$176
- AMPLATZER$164
- Bridge$149
- LifeVest$137
- Corlanor$122
- ELIQUIS$120
- VERQUVO$120
- ENTRESTO$120
- Cardiva VASCADE MVP VVCS 6-12F$113
- WATCHMAN Access System$112
How this compares
$10,294 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.
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 | 519 | $583,566 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 99 | $96,914 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 82 | $94,916 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 38 | $36,904 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 38 | $22,321 |
| VerquvoVericiguat | 15 | $14,324 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 757 | $10,585 |
| Nebivolol Hcl | 129 | $7,658 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 385 | $6,249 |
| NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe | 13 | $5,043 |
| Ezetimibe | 166 | $4,927 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 16 | $4,513 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 655 | $3,995 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 394 | $3,658 |
| Carvedilol | 308 | $3,557 |
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 | $302 | $583,566519 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $942 | $96,91499 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $111 | $94,91682 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta | $209 | $41,41754 claims |
| MerckVerquvo | $633 | $14,32415 claims |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet | $135 | $5,04313 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 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.
Other cardiovascular disease in Phoenix
- Ashish GuptaPhoenix$1.2M
- Rajkumar SugumaranPhoenix$957K
- Robert ScottPhoenix$331K
- Julie RosenthalPhoenix$313K
- Tabitha MoePhoenix$256K
- Mehrdad SaririanPhoenix$158K
- Jesse SethiPhoenix$150K
- Adam SabbathPhoenix$109K
- Venkataramanan GangadharanPhoenix$97K
- Namit RohantPhoenix$83K
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.