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

Jose Suarez

Interventional Cardiology Lubbock, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1669470332 CMS profile 210936

1655 Main St Ste 201, Lubbock, TX 79401

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General payments

$31,732

728 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, Jose Suarez of Lubbock, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $31,732 across 728 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 81st 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 $5,036 108
2024 General $4,569 94
2023 General $8,491 143
2022 General $2,878 103
2021 General $3,059 99
2020 General $2,071 58
2019 General $5,628 123

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Jose Suarez were reported at $5,036. 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 Jose Suarez Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $5,628 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $2,071 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $3,059 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $2,878 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $8,491 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $4,569 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $5,036 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Boston Scientific Corporation $4,916 67 payments
  2. Penumbra, Inc. $4,592 41 payments
  3. Medtronic, Inc. $3,568 77 payments
  4. Abiomed $2,858 75 payments
  5. Abbott Laboratories $1,998 31 payments
  6. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $1,513 16 payments
  7. Philips Electronics North America Corporation $1,457 31 payments
  8. Biotronik Inc. $1,204 18 payments
  9. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $1,042 38 payments
  10. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $842 56 payments
  11. Other $7,742 278 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $28,585 716 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $3,107 9 payments
  3. Education $40 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Indigo System $3,971 34 payments
  2. Impella $2,554 46 payments
  3. GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS $1,257 6 payments
  4. Synergy $1,070 12 payments
  5. XARELTO $842 56 payments
  6. HawkOne $777 13 payments
  7. Orsiro Mission $627 10 payments
  8. Penumbra System $621 7 payments
  9. COREVALVE EVOLUT R $614 25 payments
  10. IN.PACT Admiral $502 18 payments
  11. Other $18,234 495 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 · 27 drugs

Part D claims

950

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$94,119

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

27.7%

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 25 $29,953
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 34 $28,658
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 26 $21,438
Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl Brand 12 $6,078
Ranolazine Er Ranolazine Brand 28 $2,013
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 92 $817
Nifedipine Er Nifedipine Brand 27 $731
Rosuvastatin Calcium Generic 45 $507
Atorvastatin Calcium Generic 76 $473
Potassium Chloride Generic 54 $465

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 27 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 · 67 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$94,608

Of which drugs: $1,205

Medicare patients

376

Average age 74

Services billed

1,311

162 women, 214 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 70%
Diabetes 49%
Arthritis 49%
Heart failure 40%
Atrial fibrillation 39%
Chronic kidney disease 35%
Depression 25%
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 59 236 $1,205

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 6 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
ENTRESTO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $63
$63 26 —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $30
$30 — —
OPSUMIT
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $26
$26 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $20
$20 — —
Ozempic
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $17
$17 — —

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

728 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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