Who Paid My Doc
Alexandru Costea
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Cincinnati, OH Medical Doctor
NPI 1972551190 CMS profile 44380
2123 Auburn Ave Ste 137, Cincinnati, OH 45219
General payments
$187,612
Research payments
$525
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$341,590
Through program year 2025, Alexandru Costea of Cincinnati, OH is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $187,612 across 351 general payments and $525 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $341,590 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 94th percentile of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
8 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $37,295 | 58 | |
| 2024 | General | $11,059 | 16 | |
| 2023 | General | $4,945 | 15 | |
| 2022 | General | $38,108 | 76 | |
| 2022 | Research | $525 | 1 | |
| 2021 | General | $21,754 | 68 | |
| 2020 | General | $27,909 | 38 | |
| 2019 | General | $46,542 | 80 |
Beside peers
- Alexandru Costea
- Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median
- Middle half of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Alexandru Costea were reported at $37,295. Among 3,064 Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology profiles paid that year, the median was $2,462 and the middle half received between $733 and $7,710.
Show as a table
| Year | Alexandru Costea | Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $46,542 | $2,361 | $585–$8,260 | $163 |
| 2020 | $27,909 | $993 | $247–$4,351 | $114 |
| 2021 | $21,754 | $1,185 | $326–$4,739 | $132 |
| 2022 | $38,108 | $2,073 | $554–$6,789 | $149 |
| 2023 | $4,945 | $2,568 | $759–$8,159 | $160 |
| 2024 | $11,059 | $2,557 | $703–$7,403 | $164 |
| 2025 | $37,295 | $2,462 | $733–$7,710 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 16 drugsPart D claims
831
Drug cost
$292,987
Branded share of claims
46.3%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 260 | $237,384 | |
| Xarelto Rivaroxaban | Brand | 59 | $45,501 | |
| Enoxaparin Sodium | Generic | 30 | $3,218 | |
| Amiodarone Hcl | Generic | 87 | $3,153 | |
| Metoprolol Succinate | Generic | 147 | $1,390 | |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd) Diltiazem Hcl | Brand | 13 | $342 | |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er Diltiazem Hcl | Brand | 18 | $331 | |
| Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate | Brand | 35 | $322 | |
| Colchicine | Generic | 11 | $316 | |
| Warfarin Sodium | Generic | 38 | $306 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 16 counted.
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 2,573 Part D prescribers listed as Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 70 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$253,142
Medicare patients
471
Services billed
2,934
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 63% | |
| Arthritis | 57% | |
| Heart failure | 47% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 32% | |
| Diabetes | 31% | |
| COPD | 20% |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Records
352 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.