RxDoctor Payments Data

Ravi Kode, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Tulsa, OKNPI 1366602617

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.5% of the total across 14 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 8 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $345 and has fallen 68.2% since, to $110 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in OK, where the typical reported total is $2,806.

$919in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $65.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$220
  • Edwards Lifesciences$173
  • Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$130
  • AstraZeneca$127
  • MDD US Operations, LLC$125
  • Philips North America LLC$106
  • plus $39 from 2 others
$168,226in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $7314.19 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Novartis$85K
  • Amgen$42K
  • AstraZeneca$41K

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$90598%
  • Education$142%

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

$919 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 164 cardiovascular disease providers in Oklahoma.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$192,083
Medicare patients
1,587
Services billed
2,821

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
EliquisApixaban331$258,105
XareltoRivaroxaban92$78,177
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol84$53,156
JardianceEmpagliflozin51$47,008
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan31$31,457
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab24$19,962
Praluent PenAlirocumab19$13,743
OzempicSemaglutide11$10,259
BrilintaTicagrelor16$9,524
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab11$8,896
Atorvastatin Calcium302$6,874
Metoprolol Succinate305$6,151
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate288$4,844
Rosuvastatin Calcium103$3,218
Carvedilol330$3,185

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$127$62,680100 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 30th percentile of 164 cardiovascular disease providers in Oklahoma.

Other cardiovascular disease in Tulsa

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