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

Reza Rafie

Hospitalist Bakersfield, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1780910810 CMS profile 926472

3551 Q St Ste 100, Bakersfield, CA 93301

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General payments

$4,776

168 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, Reza Rafie of Bakersfield, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,776 across 168 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 97th percentile of Hospitalist 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 $871 31
2024 General $859 36
2023 General $561 26
2022 General $941 23
2021 General $652 28
2020 General $192 7
2019 General $701 17

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Reza Rafie
  • Hospitalist median
  • Middle half of Hospitalist
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Reza Rafie were reported at $871. Among 6,882 Hospitalist profiles paid that year, the median was $86 and the middle half received between $30 and $191.

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Year Reza Rafie Hospitalist median Middle half National median
2019 $701 $96 $28–$201 $163
2020 $192 $48 $19–$125 $114
2021 $652 $70 $23–$167 $132
2022 $941 $85 $27–$174 $149
2023 $561 $89 $30–$191 $160
2024 $859 $95 $29–$204 $164
2025 $871 $86 $30–$191 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $568 12 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $556 22 payments
  3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $399 21 payments
  4. Medtronic, Inc. $277 3 payments
  5. Pfizer Inc. $277 16 payments
  6. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $233 13 payments
  7. Abbott Laboratories $230 5 payments
  8. CathWorks, Inc. $220 1 payment
  9. Abiomed $216 7 payments
  10. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $166 9 payments
  11. Other $1,635 59 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $4,713 166 payments
  2. Education $42 1 payment
  3. Gift $21 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Repatha $510 19 payments
  2. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular;Metabolic Disease $277 16 payments
  3. LEQVIO $245 12 payments
  4. FFRangio $220 1 payment
  5. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular $208 12 payments
  6. XARELTO $166 9 payments
  7. Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring $159 1 payment
  8. AVVIGO Guidance System $147 1 payment
  9. Vascepa $146 9 payments
  10. 3F $145 2 payments
  11. Other $2,183 79 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

3,060

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$702,191

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

37.4%

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 234 $279,358
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 148 $140,040
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 106 $89,022
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 62 $54,899
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 52 $39,950
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 25 $39,009
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 27 $14,494
Diltiazem 12hr Er Diltiazem Hcl Brand 44 $5,580
Labetalol Hcl Generic 188 $5,188
Digoxin Generic 93 $3,261

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 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 · 48 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$372,886

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

1,737

Average age 75

Services billed

5,292

954 women, 783 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 44%
Diabetes 41%
Ischemic heart disease 37%
Chronic kidney disease 34%
Heart failure 31%
Atrial fibrillation 28%
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

First 5 of 7 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
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $222
$222 27 —
ELIQUIS
  • PFIZER INC. $68
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $37
$104 234 —
Arcalyst
  • Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc $81
$81 — —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $56
$56 — —
XARELTO
  • Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $43
$43 52 —

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

168 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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