Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Arup Achari

Cardiovascular Disease Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1538146022 CMS profile 115206

1701 Sunset Blvd, Houston, TX 77005

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General payments

$5,069

162 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Arup Achari of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,069 across 162 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 69th percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $903 31
2024 General $1,123 45
2023 General $935 29
2022 General $777 15
2021 General $616 14
2020 General $331 14
2019 General $384 14

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Arup Achari
  • Cardiovascular Disease median
  • Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Arup Achari were reported at $903. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.

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Year Arup Achari Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $384 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $331 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $616 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $777 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $935 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $1,123 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $903 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $791 31 payments
  2. Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. $653 7 payments
  3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $597 33 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $446 22 payments
  5. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $401 18 payments
  6. Boston Scientific Corporation $258 3 payments
  7. CathWorks, Inc. $231 1 payment
  8. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $175 8 payments
  9. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $168 3 payments
  10. Atricure, Inc. $159 1 payment
  11. Other $1,190 35 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,050 161 payments
  2. Education $19 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. LEQVIO $537 30 payments
  2. ELIQUIS $535 20 payments
  3. OPTIMIZER Cardiovascular Device $490 6 payments
  4. OPTIMIZER Cardiovascular Device $490 6 payments
  5. XARELTO $401 18 payments
  6. Repatha $303 14 payments
  7. ENTRESTO $287 18 payments
  8. CAMZYOS $231 10 payments
  9. FFRangio $231 1 payment
  10. Optimizer Cardiovascular $163 1 payment
  11. Other $3,396 83 payments

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 · 63 drugs

Part D claims

12,316

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$3,285,546

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

35.2%

Median for Cardiology: 25.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 539 $658,150
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 526 $645,868
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 758 $572,836
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 339 $344,191
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 187 $227,894
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 271 $218,322
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 186 $190,767
Praluent Pen Alirocumab Brand 208 $150,373
Multaq Dronedarone Hcl Brand 58 $57,697
Ezetimibe Generic 760 $25,274

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 63 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 18,782 Part D prescribers listed as Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 66 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$1,672,518

Of which drugs: $19,378

Medicare patients

1,569

Average age 77

Services billed

16,348

684 women, 885 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 72%
Arthritis 41%
Atrial fibrillation 30%
Diabetes 22%
Heart failure 20%
Chronic kidney disease 20%
Cancer 18%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 mg J2785 Office 857 3,444 $18,449
Low osmolar contrast material, 300-399 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml Q9967 Office 63 6,049 $625
Injection, aminophyllin, up to 250 mg J0280 Office 47 47 $301

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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 10 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
CAMZYOS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $166
$166 — —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $159
$159 — —
ENTRESTO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $83
$83 539 —
ELIQUIS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $79
$79 526 —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $60
$60 186 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

162 reported

Every 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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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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