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

Michael Bernard

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology New Orleans, LA Medical Doctor

NPI 1396892287 CMS profile 244500

1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121

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General payments

$59,063

494 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$311,841 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Michael Bernard of New Orleans, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $59,063 across 494 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $311,841 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 Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology 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 $4,392 30
2024 General $7,325 70
2023 General $10,636 95
2022 General $15,150 82
2021 General $2,082 52
2020 General $2,893 70
2019 General $16,585 95

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Michael Bernard
  • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median
  • Middle half of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Michael Bernard were reported at $4,392. Among 3,064 Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology profiles paid that year, the median was $2,462 and the middle half received between $733 and $7,710.

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Year Michael Bernard Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median Middle half National median
2019 $16,585 $2,361 $585–$8,260 $163
2020 $2,893 $993 $247–$4,351 $114
2021 $2,082 $1,185 $326–$4,739 $132
2022 $15,150 $2,073 $554–$6,789 $149
2023 $10,636 $2,568 $759–$8,159 $160
2024 $7,325 $2,557 $703–$7,403 $164
2025 $4,392 $2,462 $733–$7,710 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $24,102 351 payments
  2. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $14,016 21 payments
  3. Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. $8,305 3 payments
  4. Biotronik Inc. $4,677 40 payments
  5. Medtronic, Inc. $2,982 20 payments
  6. Boston Scientific Corporation $2,857 26 payments
  7. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $503 6 payments
  8. Volta Medical Inc $448 6 payments
  9. Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. $385 5 payments
  10. Biosense Webster, Inc. $374 4 payments
  11. Other $414 12 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $17,961 443 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $15,950 11 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $15,812 30 payments
  4. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $6,400 7 payments
  5. Consulting Fee $2,100 1 payment
  6. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $840 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. XARELTO $14,016 21 payments
  2. MAGNETOM Free.Max $8,305 3 payments
  3. ENSITE PRECISION $5,688 103 payments
  4. ENSITE Electrophysiology $5,091 43 payments
  5. ENSITE Structural Heart $2,677 7 payments
  6. CARDIOMEMS $2,625 2 payments
  7. ADVISOR $1,575 2 payments
  8. EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System $1,352 39 payments
  9. Ensite Cardiac Mapping System $1,204 86 payments
  10. Acticor 7 VR-T DX $687 12 payments
  11. Other $8,405 122 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 · 21 drugs

Part D claims

1,915

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: 1,090

Drug cost

$654,528

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: $354,841

Branded share of claims

41.9%

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: 38.3%

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 525 $455,937
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 147 $152,728
Flecainide Acetate Generic 404 $18,014
Dofetilide Generic 25 $6,986
Dabigatran Etexilate Dabigatran Etexilate Mesylate Brand 33 $6,965
Amiodarone Hcl Generic 209 $4,802
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 275 $3,503
Propafenone Hcl Er Propafenone Hcl Brand 12 $1,683
Propafenone Hcl Generic 28 $1,141
Sotalol Sotalol Hcl Brand 36 $558

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 21 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 2,573 Part D prescribers listed as Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 62 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$116,730

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

524

Average age 75

Services billed

1,467

254 women, 270 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%
Atrial fibrillation 60%
Heart failure 52%
Arthritis 48%
Ischemic heart disease 47%
Chronic kidney disease 39%
Diabetes 35%
Depression 21%

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

494 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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