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

Bhola Rama

Cardiovascular Disease Marion, OH Medical Doctor

NPI 1306804349 CMS profile 59108

278 Barks Rd W, Marion, OH 43302

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General payments

$376

19 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$41,520

Paid to them · 57 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$2,081,327 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Bhola Rama of Marion, OH is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $376 across 19 general payments and $41,520 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $2,081,327 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 93rd percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

10 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $14 1
2023 General $45 3
2023 Research $3 1
2022 General $73 5
2022 Research $1,189 1
2021 General $49 3
2021 Research $9,978 26
2020 General $33 1
2020 Research $30,350 29
2019 General $163 6

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Bhola Rama were reported at $14. 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 Bhola Rama Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $163 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $33 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $49 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $73 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $45 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $0 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $14 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Amgen Inc. $101 5 payments
  2. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $56 1 payment
  3. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $40 3 payments
  4. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $37 2 payments
  5. Pfizer Inc. $34 2 payments
  6. Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. $33 1 payment
  7. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $26 2 payments
  8. Biotronik Inc. $21 1 payment
  9. Amarin Pharma Inc. $15 1 payment
  10. bioMerieux $14 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $376 19 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Repatha $60 3 payments
  2. Reveal LINQ $56 1 payment
  3. ENTRESTO $37 2 payments
  4. ELIQUIS $34 2 payments
  5. DEFINITY $33 1 payment
  6. BRILINTA $26 2 payments
  7. VERQUVO $26 2 payments
  8. PAXLOVID $18 1 payment
  9. Corlanor $16 1 payment
  10. Vascepa $15 1 payment
  11. Other $42 3 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Vifor (International) Ltd. $40,328 55 payments
  2. Eli Lilly and Company $1,192 2 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 35 drugs

Part D claims

2,956

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$453,598

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

25.4%

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
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 213 $227,609
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 60 $74,632
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 44 $55,259
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 36 $37,092
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 32 $31,138
Ranolazine Er Ranolazine Brand 39 $5,997
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 215 $2,536
Ezetimibe Generic 81 $1,718
Atorvastatin Calcium Generic 240 $1,703
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd) Diltiazem Hcl Brand 52 $1,603

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 35 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 · 41 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$109,672

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

1,875

Average age 76

Services billed

3,928

937 women, 938 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%
Arthritis 56%
Ischemic heart disease 48%
Diabetes 42%
Chronic kidney disease 39%
Heart failure 38%
Atrial fibrillation 38%
Depression 32%

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

76 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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