RxDoctor Payments Data

Satya Rao, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · San Antonio, TXNPI 1093911976

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,335in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 159 payments — averaging $14.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$1K
  • Pfizer$186
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$139
  • Cook Medical LLC$137
  • Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$126
  • Johnson & Johnson$121
  • plus $520 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,335100%

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

$2,335 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$285,014
Medicare patients
1,565
Services billed
4,930

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
EliquisApixaban254$294,774
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan50$71,407
XareltoRivaroxaban46$64,695
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol39$44,301
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab36$31,450
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab22$22,881
Praluent PenAlirocumab24$12,235
Clonidine17$4,255
Metoprolol Succinate214$2,786
Ezetimibe87$2,231
Atorvastatin Calcium195$2,115
Pravastatin Sodium159$2,110
Midodrine Hcl27$2,040
Losartan Potassium164$1,871
Carvedilol210$1,716

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$186$294,774254 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,106$71,40750 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$121$64,69546 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$30$44,30139 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 35th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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