RxDoctor Payments Data

Salman Bandeali, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1780990341

Payments from drug & device makers

$21,058in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 621 payments — averaging $33.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$4K
  • Abiomed$4K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$2K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • Novartis$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$764
  • plus $8K from 46 others
$166in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $165.96 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.

  • Abiomed$166

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$9394%
  • Food & beverage$19,78794%
  • Education$3322%

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

$21,058 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,245,316
Medicare patients
786
Services billed
6,250

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
EliquisApixaban181$224,444
OpsumitMacitentan13$158,462
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan101$139,499
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol108$104,184
JardianceEmpagliflozin39$45,722
OzempicSemaglutide15$31,641
XareltoRivaroxaban26$29,885
BrilintaTicagrelor26$23,915
WegovySemaglutide11$17,621
Metoprolol Succinate234$3,586
Bumetanide79$3,537
Ranolazine ErRanolazine31$3,514
Potassium Chloride74$1,877
Atorvastatin Calcium188$1,617
Rosuvastatin Calcium94$1,525

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$615$224,444181 claims
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Opsumit$652$158,46213 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,103$139,499101 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$280$128,099134 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Wegovy$453$49,26226 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$355$45,72239 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$764$29,88526 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 80th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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