RxDoctor Payments Data

Ragesh Panikkath, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · San Luis Obispo, CANPI 1275828113

Payments from drug & device makers

$26,800in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 238 payments — averaging $112.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$16K
  • Abbott$5K
  • Boston Scientific$3K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$1K
  • Atricure, Inc.$1K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$195
  • plus $184 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Grants$10,00037%
  • Travel & lodging$9,61936%
  • Food & beverage$6,89526%
  • Education$2861%

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

$26,800 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 290 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$688,516
Medicare patients
1,174
Services billed
5,445

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
EliquisApixaban367$438,842
XareltoRivaroxaban111$121,994
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan58$75,730
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$10,022
Metoprolol Succinate422$6,630
Dofetilide35$6,477
SotalolSotalol Hcl97$1,964
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl62$1,849
Flecainide Acetate40$1,751
Sotalol AfSotalol Hcl26$1,587
Diltiazem Hcl24$735
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate89$723
Metoprolol Tartrate70$680
Amiodarone Hcl32$536
Sucralfate46$496

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$39$438,842367 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 35th percentile of 290 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in California.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in San Luis Obispo

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