RxDoctor Payments Data

Ramin Artang, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Duluth, MNNPI 1376617282

Payments from drug & device makers

$56,445in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $2454.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$45K
  • Haemonetics Corporation$10K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$94
  • Johnson & Johnson$24
  • AbbVie$14

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,80080%
  • Travel & lodging$65311%
  • Food & beverage$5589%
  • Education$240%

General payments by program year

19
20
23

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

$56,445 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$69,282
Medicare patients
623
Services billed
1,030

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
EliquisApixaban110$118,173
XareltoRivaroxaban62$58,949
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab26$19,505
BrilintaTicagrelor24$16,808
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$14,547
Praluent PenAlirocumab13$7,242
Metoprolol Succinate171$2,611
Dilt-XrDiltiazem Hcl29$1,508
Rosuvastatin Calcium91$1,274
Losartan Potassium112$1,129
Torsemide37$990
Atorvastatin Calcium90$936
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate71$850
Digoxin45$826
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate42$748

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$24$58,94962 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 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.

Other cardiovascular disease in Duluth

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