RxDoctor Payments Data

Ramin Farshi, MD

Interventional Cardiology · West Hills, CANPI 1275507352

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,530in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 529 payments — averaging $19.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$2K
  • Abbott$1K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
  • Amgen$917
  • Pfizer$764
  • Merck$539
  • plus $4K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$10,46599%
  • Education$170%
  • Other$480%

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

$10,530 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,336,503
Medicare patients
1,164
Services billed
12,283

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
EliquisApixaban532$494,881
XareltoRivaroxaban170$175,786
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan158$160,028
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol125$103,166
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab113$94,091
MultaqDronedarone Hcl39$77,512
Nebivolol Hcl322$14,457
Rosuvastatin Calcium849$11,327
EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil38$9,040
Praluent PenAlirocumab19$8,880
Ezetimibe443$8,834
InpefaSotagliflozin13$8,453
CorlanorIvabradine Hcl13$8,414
Nifedipine ErNifedipine366$8,022
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl11$7,578

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$764$494,881532 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$251$175,786170 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,670$160,028158 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$309$103,166125 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$271$77,51239 claims
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inpefa$70$8,45313 claims
AmgenCorlanor$917$8,41413 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 50th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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