RxDoctor Payments Data

Ravinder Dervesh, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Des Moines, IANPI 1013107291

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.9% of the total across 66 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 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in IA, where the typical reported total is $3,872.

$2,674in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $40.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$586
  • Abbott$559
  • Abiomed$267
  • Medtronic$233
  • Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$198
  • Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc.$143
  • plus $687 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,64699%
  • Education$281%

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

$2,674 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 64 interventional cardiology providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$316,593
Medicare patients
1,508
Services billed
3,869

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
EliquisApixaban221$202,398
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan75$92,765
JardianceEmpagliflozin33$35,957
BrilintaTicagrelor54$25,340
XareltoRivaroxaban11$6,210
Metoprolol Succinate311$3,916
PradaxaDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate12$2,229
Bumetanide35$1,556
Flecainide Acetate24$1,258
Atorvastatin Calcium168$1,014
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate67$787
Amlodipine Besylate181$735
Bisoprolol Fumarate24$681
Losartan Potassium90$673
Rosuvastatin Calcium48$668

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
NovartisEntresto$64$92,76575 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Pradaxa$15$38,18645 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$28$25,34054 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 40th percentile of 64 interventional cardiology providers in Iowa.

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