Paul Ludmer, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Oakland, CANPI 1316976913
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 80 payments — averaging $344.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$28K
- Edwards Lifesciences$20
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,82579%
- Travel & lodging$1,69010%
- Food & beverage$1,91511%
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 | 79 | $27,561 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $20 |
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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$15,626
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$385
How this compares
$27,581 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 | 211 | $275,637 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 123 | $169,079 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 166 | $139,542 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 91 | $114,715 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 24 | $20,425 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 17 | $14,472 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 232 | $4,165 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 257 | $3,454 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 45 | $2,628 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 34 | $2,102 |
| Ezetimibe | 62 | $1,848 |
| Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl | 11 | $1,636 |
| Carvedilol | 131 | $1,556 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 77 | $1,448 |
| Digoxin | 44 | $760 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Oakland
- 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
- Farhad RafiiWest Hills$3.2M
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.