RxDoctor Payments Data

Suraj Kamat, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Alice, TXNPI 1457324089

Payments from drug & device makers

$52,926in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 746 payments — averaging $70.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Angiodynamics, Inc.$29K
  • Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$7K
  • Medtronic$5K
  • Biotronik Inc.$3K
  • Abiomed$3K
  • Johnson & Johnson$987
  • plus $5K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$5,76011%
  • Travel & lodging$1,5733%
  • Food & beverage$14,60629%
  • Education$80%
  • Other$28,50056%

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

$52,926 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$595,591
Medicare patients
639
Services billed
8,283

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
EliquisApixaban226$180,290
XareltoRivaroxaban147$111,039
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan83$75,499
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol63$38,935
JardianceEmpagliflozin35$26,603
BrilintaTicagrelor44$21,779
VerquvoVericiguat22$19,157
Praluent PenAlirocumab11$6,865
Ranolazine ErRanolazine105$6,210
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate581$4,270
Metoprolol Succinate349$3,846
Colchicine59$3,753
ZypitamagPitavastatin Magnesium12$2,626
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate243$1,948
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl76$1,916

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$252$180,290226 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$987$111,039147 claims
NovartisEntresto$131$75,49983 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$150$60,714107 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$115$26,60335 claims
MerckVerquvo$279$19,15722 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 85th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

Other cardiovascular disease in Alice

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