RxDoctor Payments Data

Rachana Kulkarni, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Bridgewater, NJNPI 1912971185

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,994in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 180 payments — averaging $22.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$705
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$491
  • Edwards Lifesciences$339
  • Abbott$248
  • Novartis$242
  • Amgen$232
  • plus $2K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,97299%
  • Education$221%

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

$3,994 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$319,711
Medicare patients
969
Services billed
3,163

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
EliquisApixaban234$308,938
XareltoRivaroxaban103$122,029
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan77$111,337
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab53$58,064
JardianceEmpagliflozin61$52,685
BrilintaTicagrelor12$14,050
Ranolazine ErRanolazine117$12,986
Rosuvastatin Calcium771$12,679
Praluent PenAlirocumab20$11,807
Metoprolol Succinate566$8,616
Atorvastatin Calcium817$8,307
Flecainide Acetate84$6,641
Nebivolol Hcl130$5,869
Ezetimibe-SimvastatinEzetimibe/Simvastatin96$5,794
Olmesartan-HydrochlorothiazideOlmesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide116$5,544

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$210$308,938234 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$106$122,029103 claims
NovartisEntresto$242$111,33777 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$150$52,68561 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$151$14,05012 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 60th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.

Other cardiovascular disease in Bridgewater

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