RxDoctor Payments Data

Rikin Tank, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Santa Maria, CANPI 1891105177

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,678in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 170 payments — averaging $21.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abiomed$627
  • Amgen$559
  • Merck$485
  • Boston Scientific$444
  • Pfizer$285
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$213
  • plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,668100%
  • Education$110%

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

$3,678 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$388,925
Medicare patients
906
Services billed
3,016

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
EliquisApixaban92$102,533
JardianceEmpagliflozin41$25,524
BrilintaTicagrelor46$22,723
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab21$21,250
XareltoRivaroxaban24$19,690
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan16$13,729
Metoprolol Succinate297$2,217
Atorvastatin Calcium330$1,815
Ezetimibe47$1,345
Rosuvastatin Calcium95$907
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate102$905
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate40$676
Losartan Potassium106$619
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl36$522
Furosemide136$425

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$285$102,53392 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$153$25,52441 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$66$22,72346 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 55th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Santa Maria

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