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

Patrick Welch

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Lafayette, LA Medical Doctor

NPI 1417146283 CMS profile 199867

200 Beaullieu Drive, Building 1, Ste 1, Lafayette, LA 70508

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General payments

$7,793

236 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, Patrick Welch of Lafayette, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $7,793 across 236 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 28th 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 $2,293 50
2024 General $925 34
2023 General $1,056 30
2022 General $544 22
2021 General $588 29
2020 General $1,714 33
2019 General $672 38

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Patrick Welch were reported at $2,293. 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 Patrick Welch Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median Middle half National median
2019 $672 $2,361 $585–$8,260 $163
2020 $1,714 $993 $247–$4,351 $114
2021 $588 $1,185 $326–$4,739 $132
2022 $544 $2,073 $554–$6,789 $149
2023 $1,056 $2,568 $759–$8,159 $160
2024 $925 $2,557 $703–$7,403 $164
2025 $2,293 $2,462 $733–$7,710 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $1,743 29 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,635 13 payments
  3. Medtronic, Inc. $1,044 36 payments
  4. Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. $401 6 payments
  5. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $388 26 payments
  6. Cardiva Medical, Inc. $373 17 payments
  7. Pfizer Inc. $350 21 payments
  8. Biosense Webster, Inc. $296 5 payments
  9. Biotronik Inc. $291 13 payments
  10. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $265 18 payments
  11. Other $1,007 52 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,467 228 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $2,326 8 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AVEIR $1,364 10 payments
  2. WATCHMAN $1,304 4 payments
  3. XARELTO $388 26 payments
  4. OPTIMIZER Cardiovascular Device $361 5 payments
  5. OPTIMIZER Cardiovascular Device $361 5 payments
  6. ELIQUIS $350 21 payments
  7. Micra $347 8 payments
  8. Carto 3 $296 5 payments
  9. Cardiva VASCADE MVP VVCS 6-12F $279 12 payments
  10. LifeVest $204 11 payments
  11. Other $3,216 152 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 · 40 drugs

Part D claims

4,510

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: 1,090

Drug cost

$937,663

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: $354,841

Branded share of claims

38.5%

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 669 $511,950
Multaq Dronedarone Hcl Brand 194 $192,841
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 129 $134,882
Flecainide Acetate Generic 1,045 $32,280
Corlanor Ivabradine Hcl Brand 24 $22,033
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 700 $7,785
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd) Diltiazem Hcl Brand 241 $5,562
Amiodarone Hcl Generic 329 $4,334
Dofetilide Generic 20 $4,181
Diltiazem 12hr Er Diltiazem Hcl Brand 11 $2,762

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 40 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 · 73 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$319,089

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

1,102

Average age 76

Services billed

6,182

497 women, 605 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 75%
Ischemic heart disease 60%
Heart failure 50%
Arthritis 48%
Diabetes 34%
Chronic kidney disease 31%
Depression 23%

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

4 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
CAMZYOS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $71
$71 — —
MULTAQ
  • SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S. LLC $62
$62 194 —
ELIQUIS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $38
$38 669 —
XARELTO
  • Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $38
$38 129 —

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

236 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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