RxDoctor Payments Data

Someswara Karri, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Memphis, TNNPI 1841224300

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,291in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $60.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$2K
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$1K
  • AstraZeneca$422
  • Abbott$320
  • Boston Scientific$151
  • Seagen Inc.$113
  • plus $217 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Grants$1233%
  • Travel & lodging$1,31131%
  • Food & beverage$2,57260%
  • Education$2857%

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

$4,291 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$116,781
Medicare patients
338
Services billed
1,200

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
EliquisApixaban65$70,842
XareltoRivaroxaban41$50,424
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan44$49,307
BrilintaTicagrelor56$45,660
JardianceEmpagliflozin38$45,193
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$17,155
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab12$6,277
Digoxin81$2,354
Amiodarone Hcl46$2,269
Potassium Chloride78$2,134
Midodrine Hcl39$1,888
Ranolazine ErRanolazine20$1,616
Atorvastatin Calcium117$1,387
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate108$1,179
SotalolSotalol Hcl36$1,091

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
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$422$62,81571 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$20$50,42441 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 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

Other cardiovascular disease in Memphis

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