Robert Cacdac
Rancho Mirage, CANPI 1154950970
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 125 payments — averaging $40.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Biotronik Inc.$403
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$396
- Abbott$349
- Amgen$320
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,83494%
- Education$2856%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 29 | $1,239 |
| Medtronic | 39 | $1,026 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 17 | $403 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 4 | $396 |
| Abbott | 2 | $349 |
| Amgen | 5 | $320 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $299 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $231 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $218 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $166 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $148 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 2 | $141 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $122 |
| Merck | 1 | $27 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- UPTRAVI$369
- OPSUMIT$369
- Repatha$261
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$245
- EVOQUE$218
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$212
- ONPATTRO$139
- Inpefa$121
- MitraClip$104
- VYNDAQEL$102
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 21 | $189 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.