Shahyar Gharacholou, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1477752715
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 30 payments — averaging $3809.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- American Regent$113K
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$72
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$88474%
- Food & beverage$30726%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| American Regent | 20 | $113,089 |
| Abbott | 9 | $1,119 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $72 |
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
$114,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 24 | $33,211 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 11 | $13,519 |
| Repatha SyringeEvolocumab | 11 | $6,204 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 59 | $1,044 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 11 | $1,021 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 76 | $887 |
| Losartan Potassium | 51 | $752 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 35 | $605 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 41 | $579 |
| Carvedilol | 13 | $249 |
| Ezetimibe | 11 | $247 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 22 | $233 |
| Nitroglycerin | 14 | $195 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 14 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Jacksonville
- Francesco FranchiJacksonville$1.6M
- Jose Nativi-NicolauJacksonville$1.5M
- Edward PereiraJacksonville$1.1M
- Alan MillerJacksonville$756K
- Ameeth VedreJacksonville$661K
- Michael KorenGainesville$31M
- Seth BaumBoca Raton$11.1M
- Alexis GutierrezHialeah$8M
- Eric SpivackAventura$7.1M
- William OneillNaples$4.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.