RxDoctor Payments Data

Roxana Ghashghaei, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Laguna Hills, CANPI 1811315674

Payments from drug & device makers

$517,979in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 415 payments — averaging $1248.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$261K
  • AstraZeneca$167K
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$63K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$22K
  • Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.$3K
  • Medtronic$400
  • plus $2K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$53,28513%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$297,00875%
  • Travel & lodging$37,0749%
  • Food & beverage$10,3083%
  • Education$840%

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

$517,979 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$257,451
Medicare patients
1,577
Services billed
2,969

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
VyndamaxTafamidis85$2,039,941
VyndaqelTafamidis Meglumine12$319,146
EliquisApixaban173$200,214
JardianceEmpagliflozin134$108,499
Praluent PenAlirocumab106$65,951
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab54$42,038
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan25$26,325
XareltoRivaroxaban13$15,833
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl27$10,906
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab11$9,511
BrilintaTicagrelor13$6,584
Rosuvastatin Calcium219$4,454
Nebivolol Hcl43$3,739
Metoprolol Succinate188$2,482
Bumetanide18$1,330

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
PfizerVyndamax, Vyndaqel, Eliquis$261,495$2,559,302270 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$14$108,499134 claims
NovartisEntresto$216$26,32525 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$167,079$6,58413 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 95th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Laguna Hills

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