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

Gilbert Kukielka

Interventional Cardiology Cape Girardeau, MO Medical Doctor

NPI 1710986427 CMS profile 78175

211 Saint Francis Dr Ste 15, Cape Girardeau, MO 63703

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General payments

$6,341

133 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, Gilbert Kukielka of Cape Girardeau, MO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,341 across 133 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 45th percentile of Interventional Cardiology 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 $225 2
2024 General $355 6
2023 General $771 14
2022 General $1,152 24
2021 General $1,535 21
2020 General $445 18
2019 General $1,859 48

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Gilbert Kukielka were reported at $225. 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 Gilbert Kukielka Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,859 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $445 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $1,535 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $1,152 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $771 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $355 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $225 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abiomed $1,723 20 payments
  2. Terumo Medical Corporation $1,201 9 payments
  3. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,004 28 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $384 10 payments
  5. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $383 23 payments
  6. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $303 12 payments
  7. Shockwave Medical, Inc $221 2 payments
  8. Amarin Pharma Inc. $158 3 payments
  9. Abbott Laboratories $149 2 payments
  10. Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. $140 3 payments
  11. Other $675 21 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,239 126 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,022 4 payments
  3. Gift $55 1 payment
  4. Education $25 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Impella $1,723 20 payments
  2. Glidesheath $1,147 6 payments
  3. Heartrail $1,116 5 payments
  4. Optitorque $1,116 5 payments
  5. TR Band $1,022 4 payments
  6. Repatha $384 10 payments
  7. XARELTO $383 23 payments
  8. LifeVest $303 12 payments
  9. WATCHMAN Access System $291 2 payments
  10. LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor $249 6 payments
  11. Other $2,111 59 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 · 46 drugs

Part D claims

4,155

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$621,440

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

27.8%

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 276 $237,020
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 157 $91,386
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 77 $64,405
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 64 $49,749
Nexlizet Bempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe Brand 102 $45,281
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 53 $40,289
Praluent Pen Alirocumab Brand 51 $28,407
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 30 $23,548
Rosuvastatin Calcium Generic 697 $7,671
Nexletol Bempedoic Acid Brand 14 $7,357

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 46 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 · 34 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$76,561

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

658

Average age 76

Services billed

1,802

318 women, 340 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 61%
Arthritis 53%
Diabetes 39%
Atrial fibrillation 37%
COPD 37%
Heart failure 30%
Chronic kidney disease 30%

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

1 product · 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
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $189
$189 157 —

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.

Records

133 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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