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

Paul Stahls

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Covington, LA Medical Doctor

NPI 1508057530 CMS profile 295229

1006 S Harrison St, Covington, LA 70433

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General payments

$17,688

270 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 Stahls of Covington, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $17,688 across 270 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 48th 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 $2,465 57
2024 General $3,853 44
2023 General $1,686 45
2022 General $3,320 45
2021 General $1,058 29
2020 General $232 20
2019 General $5,075 30

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Paul Stahls were reported at $2,465. 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 Paul Stahls Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median Middle half National median
2019 $5,075 $2,361 $585–$8,260 $163
2020 $232 $993 $247–$4,351 $114
2021 $1,058 $1,185 $326–$4,739 $132
2022 $3,320 $2,073 $554–$6,789 $149
2023 $1,686 $2,568 $759–$8,159 $160
2024 $3,853 $2,557 $703–$7,403 $164
2025 $2,465 $2,462 $733–$7,710 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $4,131 6 payments
  2. Abbott Laboratories $3,932 109 payments
  3. Biotronik Inc. $2,810 22 payments
  4. CardioFocus, Inc. $1,453 12 payments
  5. Medtronic, Inc. $1,201 21 payments
  6. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,139 23 payments
  7. Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. $831 14 payments
  8. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $235 3 payments
  9. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $203 6 payments
  10. AngioDynamics, Inc. $200 1 payment
  11. Other $1,553 53 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $9,683 255 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 $4,095 3 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $3,910 12 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. PRADAXA $4,117 5 payments
  2. HeartLight System $1,453 12 payments
  3. AMPLATZER AMULET $1,104 9 payments
  4. Acticor 7 VR-T DX $1,060 12 payments
  5. AVEIR $878 15 payments
  6. Assure WCD $647 10 payments
  7. LINQ II $455 11 payments
  8. RESONATE EL ICD VR $405 3 payments
  9. AMPLATZER $293 4 payments
  10. JOT DX $286 5 payments
  11. Other $6,050 181 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 · 50 drugs

Part D claims

3,121

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: 1,090

Drug cost

$631,207

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: $354,841

Branded share of claims

34.5%

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 315 $310,000
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 118 $125,393
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 44 $54,396
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 59 $42,842
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 44 $38,249
Dofetilide Generic 40 $12,420
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 12 $6,904
Praluent Pen Alirocumab Brand 13 $6,287
Amiodarone Hcl Generic 150 $5,099
Verapamil Sr Verapamil Hcl Brand 29 $2,832

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 50 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 · 72 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$183,070

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

901

Average age 76

Services billed

4,077

463 women, 438 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 56%
Ischemic heart disease 54%
Atrial fibrillation 54%
Chronic kidney disease 39%
Diabetes 36%
Heart failure 36%
Depression 32%

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 10 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
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $118
$118 44 —
Arcalyst
  • Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc $56
$56 — —
ONPATTRO
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $44
$44 — —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $29
$29 — —
Ozempic
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $23
$23 — —

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

270 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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