RxDoctor Payments Data

Venkatachalam Mulukutla, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · El Paso, TXNPI 1225275654

Payments from drug & device makers

$170,407in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 662 payments — averaging $257.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Edwards Lifesciences$113K
  • W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$19K
  • Abiomed$16K
  • Abbott$7K
  • Boston Scientific$7K
  • Medtronic$3K
  • plus $6K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$72,62546%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$30,46319%
  • Travel & lodging$30,09319%
  • Food & beverage$23,13115%
  • Education$2960%

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

$170,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$481,633
Medicare patients
580
Services billed
3,627

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
EliquisApixaban284$369,890
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan94$143,578
XareltoRivaroxaban74$85,562
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol53$61,666
BrilintaTicagrelor24$26,593
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl14$5,811
Ranolazine ErRanolazine34$3,839
Metoprolol Succinate257$3,013
Amiodarone Hcl30$1,971
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate157$1,936
Atorvastatin Calcium210$1,837
Carvedilol236$1,774
Lisinopril137$1,077
Amlodipine Besylate140$923
Olmesartan Medoxomil40$882

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$351$369,890284 claims
NovartisEntresto$924$143,57894 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$383$88,25977 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$396$85,56274 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 90th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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