Yatish Merchant, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Galloway, NJNPI 1598786246
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 387 payments — averaging $26.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- AstraZeneca$785
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$691
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$686
- Boston Scientific$656
- plus $4K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,068100%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 82 | $1,439 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 46 | $1,393 |
| AstraZeneca | 21 | $785 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 8 | $691 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 23 | $686 |
| Boston Scientific | 27 | $656 |
| Pfizer | 42 | $648 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 11 | $603 |
| Novartis | 48 | $597 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $419 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 20 | $321 |
| Bayer | 5 | $185 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $125 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $123 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $122 |
| GSK | 1 | $122 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $115 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 5 | $98 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $75 |
| Amgen | 4 | $62 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 3 | $47 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $45 |
| Preventice Services, LLC | 4 | $36 |
| Merck | 2 | $33 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $17 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- XARELTO$779
- OPTIMIZER$747
- NEXLIZET$476
- NEXLETOL$476
- CAMZYOS$367
- FARXIGA$245
- WATCHMAN FLX$125
- Ozempic$125
- JARDIANCE$125
- ELIQUIS$125
- REBYOTA$124
- XCOPRI$123
- MOUNJARO$123
- AVYCAZ$122
- AREXVY$122
- SOLIQUA 100/33$121
- TOUJEO$121
- Kerendia$120
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$118
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$118
How this compares
$10,074 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.
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 | 181 | $247,649 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 38 | $48,606 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 34 | $42,751 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 34 | $34,746 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 12 | $14,428 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 15 | $7,700 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 298 | $5,991 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 453 | $5,610 |
| Bisoprolol Fumarate | 113 | $5,381 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 313 | $5,374 |
| Ezetimibe | 206 | $5,121 |
| Labetalol Hcl | 71 | $3,329 |
| Losartan Potassium | 302 | $3,254 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 362 | $2,971 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 54 | $2,427 |
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 | $648 | $247,649181 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $1,393 | $48,60638 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $597 | $42,75134 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $785 | $34,74634 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $419 | $14,42812 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 75th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.
Other cardiovascular disease in Galloway
- Haitham DibGalloway$173K
- Robert KippermanMorristown$5.3M
- Sharan MahalBridgewater$3.5M
- Linda GillamMorristown$2.2M
- Mark GelerntHaddon Heights$2M
- Robert FishbergSpringfield$1.9M
- Dilip ViswanathHaddon Heights$1.8M
- Marc CohenNewark$1M
- Jasjit WaliaElizabeth$859K
- Sajjad SabirCamden$742K
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.