RxDoctor Payments Data

Salvatore Barbaro, MD

Interventional Cardiology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1760486757

Payments from drug & device makers

$16,154in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 379 payments — averaging $42.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$7K
  • Biotronik Inc.$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$838
  • Medtronic$789
  • Abiomed$468
  • Philips North America LLC$457
  • plus $5K from 37 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,91012%
  • Travel & lodging$1,77611%
  • Food & beverage$12,36277%
  • Education$1061%

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

$16,154 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$238,218
Medicare patients
543
Services billed
2,719

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
EliquisApixaban186$218,130
XareltoRivaroxaban135$154,907
OzempicSemaglutide56$67,913
BrilintaTicagrelor22$25,699
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan22$23,713
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol21$20,433
Rosuvastatin Calcium586$8,044
Atorvastatin Calcium588$5,075
Metoprolol Succinate401$4,687
Losartan Potassium490$4,517
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate428$3,619
Amlodipine Besylate595$3,548
Fenofibrate55$3,404
Ranolazine ErRanolazine22$3,019
SotalolSotalol Hcl116$2,980

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$66$218,130186 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$838$154,907135 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$202$67,91356 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$195$46,13143 claims
NovartisEntresto$173$23,71322 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 60th percentile of 686 interventional cardiology providers in Texas.

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