Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2020–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Darek Sanford

Cardiovascular Disease Newport, KY Medical Doctor

NPI 1932442175 CMS profile 446956

1400 Grand Avenue, Newport, KY 41071

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General payments

$8,070

414 records reported · program years 2020–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2020–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Darek Sanford of Newport, KY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,070 across 414 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 78th percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,546 93
2024 General $1,503 95
2023 General $1,368 99
2022 General $2,875 92
2021 General $669 33
2020 General $109 2

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Darek Sanford were reported at $1,546. 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 Darek Sanford Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $109 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $669 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $2,875 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $1,368 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $1,503 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $1,546 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,846 16 payments
  2. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,450 104 payments
  3. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $935 62 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $817 65 payments
  5. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $745 64 payments
  6. Pfizer Inc. $506 38 payments
  7. Abbott Laboratories $424 6 payments
  8. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $229 10 payments
  9. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $209 2 payments
  10. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $187 11 payments
  11. Other $720 36 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,738 408 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,328 5 payments
  3. Education $3 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. General - Therapies $1,391 5 payments
  2. LEQVIO $717 46 payments
  3. Repatha $536 42 payments
  4. JARDIANCE Diabetes $509 31 payments
  5. WATCHMAN Access System $455 11 payments
  6. JARDIANCE Diabetes $395 29 payments
  7. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular $370 30 payments
  8. ENTRESTO Cardiovascular $325 26 payments
  9. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular;Metabolic Disease $302 23 payments
  10. ENTRESTO Cardiology/Vascular Diseases $294 25 payments
  11. Other $2,716 168 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 · 50 drugs

Part D claims

6,245

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$2,847,936

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

30.3%

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
Vyndamax Tafamidis Brand 21 $891,805
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 574 $564,180
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 259 $357,652
Vyndaqel Tafamidis Meglumine Brand 15 $352,825
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 150 $208,854
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 182 $170,581
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 100 $110,691
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 82 $102,825
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 23 $21,479
Praluent Pen Alirocumab Brand 23 $17,672

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 50 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 · 31 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$133,177

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

1,483

Average age 75

Services billed

2,945

819 women, 664 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 59%
Arthritis 58%
Chronic kidney disease 45%
Heart failure 44%
Diabetes 40%
Atrial fibrillation 39%
Depression 35%

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 14 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
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $297
$297 259 —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $265
$265 — —
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $163
$163 182 —
ENTRESTO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $154
$154 150 —
ELIQUIS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $65
  • PFIZER INC. $36
$101 574 —

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

414 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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