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

Paul Cunningham

Interventional Cardiology Shenandoah, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1356582886 CMS profile 62091

17183 I 45 S Ste 640, Shenandoah, TX 77385

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General payments

$25,180

794 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, Paul Cunningham of Shenandoah, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $25,180 across 794 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 78th 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 $2,797 78
2024 General $2,989 80
2023 General $2,668 109
2022 General $4,098 164
2021 General $3,772 119
2020 General $2,221 84
2019 General $6,635 160

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Paul Cunningham were reported at $2,797. 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 Paul Cunningham Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $6,635 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $2,221 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $3,772 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $4,098 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $2,668 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $2,989 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $2,797 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $4,382 73 payments
  2. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $3,220 24 payments
  3. Amgen Inc. $2,070 160 payments
  4. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,494 104 payments
  5. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,440 47 payments
  6. Medtronic, Inc. $1,416 22 payments
  7. Avinger Inc. $1,120 20 payments
  8. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $835 36 payments
  9. Abiomed $684 7 payments
  10. Shockwave Medical, Inc $666 15 payments
  11. Other $7,854 286 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $23,068 790 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,997 2 payments
  3. Education $115 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. VenaSeal $2,324 8 payments
  2. Repatha $1,786 152 payments
  3. PANTHERIS $1,010 18 payments
  4. LEQVIO $863 49 payments
  5. HawkOne $807 9 payments
  6. Confirm Rx $630 7 payments
  7. ELIQUIS $525 25 payments
  8. Corlanor $520 48 payments
  9. ENTRESTO $495 37 payments
  10. XARELTO $463 28 payments
  11. Other $17,343 498 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 · 87 drugs

Part D claims

10,606

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$1,995,609

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

30.1%

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 774 $837,241
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 349 $400,387
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 198 $233,876
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 78 $92,620
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 65 $79,703
Praluent Pen Alirocumab Brand 54 $43,843
Repatha Syringe Evolocumab Brand 26 $40,548
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 46 $35,127
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 29 $32,015
Repatha Pushtronex Evolocumab Brand 16 $19,270

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 87 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 · 93 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$333,653

Of which drugs: $2,720

Medicare patients

1,887

Average age 76

Services billed

4,967

928 women, 959 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%
Arthritis 55%
Ischemic heart disease 53%
Diabetes 34%
Atrial fibrillation 34%
Chronic kidney disease 33%
Heart failure 28%
Depression 23%
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 125 500 $2,621

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 14 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
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $372
$372 — —
ELIQUIS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $90
$90 774 —
VERQUVO
  • Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $63
$63 — —
OPSUMIT
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $59
$59 — —
UPTRAVI
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $59
$59 — —

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

794 reported

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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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