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

Muhammad Bakhsh

Interventional Cardiology Bakersfield, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1619226420 CMS profile 1347589

5945 Truxtun Ave, Bakersfield, CA 93309

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General payments

$44,203

188 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, Muhammad Bakhsh of Bakersfield, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $44,203 across 188 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 85th 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 $1,071 14
2024 General $4,084 30
2023 General $7,387 52
2022 General $4,612 38
2021 General $2,548 28
2020 General $21,971 8
2019 General $2,530 18

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Muhammad Bakhsh were reported at $1,071. 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 Muhammad Bakhsh Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,530 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $21,971 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $2,548 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $4,612 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $7,387 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $4,084 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $1,071 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $21,021 3 payments
  2. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $7,062 23 payments
  3. Boston Scientific Corporation $6,261 33 payments
  4. Medtronic, Inc. $3,972 41 payments
  5. Abiomed $2,507 12 payments
  6. Abbott Laboratories $2,168 31 payments
  7. Pfizer Inc. $221 6 payments
  8. Astellas Pharma US Inc $129 3 payments
  9. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $122 4 payments
  10. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $105 7 payments
  11. Other $635 25 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Grant $21,000 1 payment
  2. Travel and Lodging $16,904 54 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $6,185 131 payments
  4. Education $114 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) $4,481 9 payments
  2. VersaCross Access Solution $2,974 8 payments
  3. Impella $2,482 11 payments
  4. CROSSBOSS $1,891 9 payments
  5. COREVALVE EVOLUT R $1,850 17 payments
  6. ONYX FRONTIER $1,807 14 payments
  7. MITRACLIP $1,217 15 payments
  8. General - Vascular Access $743 4 payments
  9. MitraClip System $568 8 payments
  10. ANGIOJET $292 2 payments
  11. Other $2,283 81 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 · 19 drugs

Part D claims

805

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$135,619

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

22%

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 79 $89,835
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 15 $16,453
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 14 $13,534
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 11 $9,996
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 109 $1,552
Atorvastatin Calcium Generic 115 $1,043
Amlodipine Besylate Generic 93 $456
Rosuvastatin Calcium Generic 37 $424
Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate Brand 58 $419
Losartan Potassium Generic 38 $306

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 19 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 · 59 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$274,706

Of which drugs: $858

Medicare patients

531

Average age 75

Services billed

2,396

273 women, 258 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 53%
Arthritis 45%
Diabetes 44%
Chronic kidney disease 38%
Heart failure 32%
Atrial fibrillation 29%
Depression 21%
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 46 192 $806

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

188 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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