Thach Nguyen, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Merrillville, INNPI 1700872769
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 255 payments — averaging $20.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$2K
- Merck$616
- Johnson & Johnson$603
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$404
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$211
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$172
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,181100%
- Education$140%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 92 | $1,713 |
| Merck | 33 | $616 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 31 | $603 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 19 | $404 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 10 | $211 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 11 | $172 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $152 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 2 | $125 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $105 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $103 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 6 | $100 |
| Abbott | 1 | $96 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $93 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $92 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $70 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $65 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Amgen | 4 | $61 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $45 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $32 |
| Bayer | 1 | $30 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $29 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- ENTRESTO$245
- VERQUVO$114
- FARXIGA$104
- TherOx DS2 Console$100
- Catheter$100
- Downstream Cartridge$100
How this compares
$5,195 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 408 cardiovascular disease providers in Indiana.
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 | 164 | $169,677 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 95 | $110,547 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 41 | $40,270 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 27 | $22,637 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 24 | $21,124 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 11 | $5,483 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 177 | $1,824 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 217 | $1,300 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 212 | $1,278 |
| Doxazosin Mesylate | 71 | $1,197 |
| Diltiazem Hcl | 48 | $1,149 |
| Digoxin | 39 | $941 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 14 | $832 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 103 | $801 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 28 | $763 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $103 | $169,677164 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $1,713 | $110,54795 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $603 | $40,27041 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $152 | $22,63727 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 408 cardiovascular disease providers in Indiana.
Other cardiovascular disease in Merrillville
- Andre ArtisMerrillville$476K
- Arshad MalikMerrillville$330K
- Mihas KodencheryMerrillville$89K
- John McGintyRichmond$3.7M
- Steven SteinhublLafayette$2.4M
- Ravi BhagwatMunster$2.2M
- Mohan KesaniMunster$1.2M
- Vijay MehtaElkhart$925K
- William CollisFort Wayne$842K
- Atul ChughIndianapolis$775K
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.