Who Paid My Doc
Louie Kostopoulos
Interventional Cardiology Milwaukee, WI Medical Doctor
NPI 1356431001 CMS profile 60841
2801 W Kinnickinnic River Pkwy, Ste 840, Milwaukee, WI 53215
General payments
$25,694
Research payments
$40
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$27,878
Through program year 2025, Louie Kostopoulos of Milwaukee, WI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $25,694 across 171 general payments and $40 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $27,878 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 79th 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 | $10,460 | 43 | |
| 2024 | General | $4,222 | 34 | |
| 2023 | General | $3,020 | 28 | |
| 2022 | General | $2,752 | 25 | |
| 2022 | Research | $40 | 2 | |
| 2021 | General | $1,070 | 9 | |
| 2020 | General | $457 | 6 | |
| 2019 | General | $3,714 | 26 |
Beside peers
- Louie Kostopoulos
- Interventional Cardiology median
- Middle half of Interventional Cardiology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Louie Kostopoulos were reported at $10,460. Among 6,173 Interventional Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,092 and the middle half received between $366 and $3,019.
Show as a table
| Year | Louie Kostopoulos | Interventional Cardiology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $3,714 | $1,097 | $329–$3,048 | $163 |
| 2020 | $457 | $473 | $161–$1,480 | $114 |
| 2021 | $1,070 | $677 | $233–$1,827 | $132 |
| 2022 | $2,752 | $978 | $333–$2,724 | $149 |
| 2023 | $3,020 | $1,136 | $382–$2,986 | $160 |
| 2024 | $4,222 | $1,181 | $395–$3,326 | $164 |
| 2025 | $10,460 | $1,092 | $366–$3,019 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 60 drugsPart D claims
6,895
Drug cost
$1,986,337
Branded share of claims
30.3%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vyndamax Tafamidis | Brand | 20 | $833,129 | |
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 470 | $444,130 | |
| Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan | Brand | 222 | $221,070 | |
| Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab | Brand | 153 | $139,427 | |
| Xarelto Rivaroxaban | Brand | 96 | $120,771 | |
| Brilinta Ticagrelor | Brand | 82 | $60,214 | |
| Jardiance Empagliflozin | Brand | 43 | $54,028 | |
| Praluent Pen Alirocumab | Brand | 59 | $29,982 | |
| Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl | Brand | 38 | $16,707 | |
| Metoprolol Succinate | Generic | 642 | $7,428 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 60 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 · 84 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$141,750
Medicare patients
748
Services billed
3,853
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 65% | |
| Arthritis | 49% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 42% | |
| Heart failure | 39% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 37% | |
| Diabetes | 35% | |
| Depression | 23% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, perflutren lipid microspheres, per ml Q9957 | Office | 65 | 132 | $4,182 |
| Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 mg J2785 | Office | 27 | 108 | $600 |
| Injection, adenosine, 1 mg (not to be used to report any adenosine phosphate compounds) J0153 | Office | 20 | 1,110 | $425 |
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
173 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.