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

Colin Hirst

Interventional Cardiology Albany, NY Medical Doctor

NPI 1235493123 CMS profile 1385908

2 Palisades Dr, Albany, NY 12205

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General payments

$65,295

485 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$2,000

Paid to them · 1 record reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Colin Hirst of Albany, NY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $65,295 across 485 general payments and $2,000 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 89th percentile of Interventional Cardiology 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 $5,346 115
2024 General $14,860 122
2023 General $4,009 64
2023 Research $2,000 1
2022 General $21,719 82
2021 General $16,411 41
2020 General $877 16
2019 General $2,073 45

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Colin Hirst
  • Interventional Cardiology median
  • Middle half of Interventional Cardiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Colin Hirst were reported at $5,346. Among 6,173 Interventional Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,092 and the middle half received between $366 and $3,019.

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Year Colin Hirst Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,073 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $877 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $16,411 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $21,719 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $4,009 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $14,860 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $5,346 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $33,966 57 payments
  2. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $17,278 149 payments
  3. Abbott Laboratories $4,536 52 payments
  4. Abiomed $3,143 41 payments
  5. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,330 26 payments
  6. CathWorks, Inc. $818 6 payments
  7. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $508 22 payments
  8. Shockwave Medical, Inc $359 3 payments
  9. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $357 20 payments
  10. Pfizer Inc. $337 16 payments
  11. Other $2,664 93 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Grant $28,000 2 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $18,844 442 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $10,973 37 payments
  4. Consulting Fee $7,420 2 payments
  5. Entertainment $49 1 payment
  6. Education $9 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. CoreValve Evolut $14,204 17 payments
  2. EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) $8,560 12 payments
  3. COREVALVE EVOLUT R $3,871 35 payments
  4. Impella $2,837 33 payments
  5. ULTREON $1,358 7 payments
  6. FFRangio $818 6 payments
  7. WATCHMAN Access System $618 18 payments
  8. TRICLIP $592 5 payments
  9. XIENCE SIERRA $436 4 payments
  10. WATCHMAN FLX $418 3 payments
  11. Other $7,271 233 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. Medtronic, Inc. $2,000 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 39 drugs

Part D claims

2,025

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 2,236

Drug cost

$394,596

Median for Interventional Cardiology: $380,412

Branded share of claims

31.8%

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 27.8%

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 97 $138,375
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 67 $94,007
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 79 $66,306
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 17 $28,359
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 14 $21,343
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 18 $11,312
Praluent Pen Alirocumab Brand 17 $10,162
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 185 $2,725
Ranolazine Er Ranolazine Brand 19 $2,662
Ezetimibe Generic 68 $2,515

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 39 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 4,694 Part D prescribers listed as Interventional Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 64 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$97,657

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

319

Average age 76

Services billed

906

154 women, 165 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 64%
Heart failure 46%
Arthritis 46%
Atrial fibrillation 41%
Chronic kidney disease 38%
Diabetes 37%
COPD 25%

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 7 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
VYNDAQEL
  • PFIZER INC. $187
$187 — —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $103
$103 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $98
$98 17 —
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $93
$93 79 —
ENTRESTO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $72
$72 67 —

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

486 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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