Who Paid My Doc
Richard Abben
Interventional Cardiology Houma, LA Medical Doctor
NPI 1750388740 CMS profile 352162
225 Dunn St, Houma, LA 70360
General payments
$101,373
Research payments
$4,135
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$381,274
Through program year 2025, Richard Abben of Houma, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $101,373 across 308 general payments and $4,135 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $381,274 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 92nd percentile of Interventional Cardiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
9 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $7,921 | 35 | |
| 2024 | General | $16,160 | 56 | |
| 2024 | Research | $635 | 1 | |
| 2023 | General | $16,408 | 56 | |
| 2022 | General | $16,036 | 37 | |
| 2021 | General | $9,529 | 34 | |
| 2020 | General | $14,447 | 37 | |
| 2019 | General | $20,873 | 53 | |
| 2019 | Research | $3,500 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Richard Abben
- Interventional Cardiology median
- Middle half of Interventional Cardiology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Richard Abben were reported at $7,921. Among 6,173 Interventional Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,092 and the middle half received between $366 and $3,019.
Show as a table
| Year | Richard Abben | Interventional Cardiology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $20,873 | $1,097 | $329–$3,048 | $163 |
| 2020 | $14,447 | $473 | $161–$1,480 | $114 |
| 2021 | $9,529 | $677 | $233–$1,827 | $132 |
| 2022 | $16,036 | $978 | $333–$2,724 | $149 |
| 2023 | $16,408 | $1,136 | $382–$2,986 | $160 |
| 2024 | $16,160 | $1,181 | $395–$3,326 | $164 |
| 2025 | $7,921 | $1,092 | $366–$3,019 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 131 drugsPart D claims
30,445
Drug cost
$4,149,175
Branded share of claims
23.7%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 1,958 | $1,901,056 | |
| Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan | Brand | 442 | $533,256 | |
| Xarelto Rivaroxaban | Brand | 491 | $465,618 | |
| Jardiance Empagliflozin | Brand | 296 | $295,778 | |
| Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab | Brand | 226 | $200,724 | |
| Repatha Pushtronex Evolocumab | Brand | 137 | $109,018 | |
| Praluent Pen Alirocumab | Brand | 97 | $56,699 | |
| Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol | Brand | 57 | $50,315 | |
| Corlanor Ivabradine Hcl | Brand | 43 | $37,104 | |
| Acebutolol Hcl | Generic | 667 | $33,321 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 131 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 4,694 Part D prescribers listed as Interventional Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 144 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$596,354
Medicare patients
1,447
Services billed
15,454
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 63% | |
| Arthritis | 45% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 41% | |
| Heart failure | 39% | |
| Diabetes | 37% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 27% | |
| COPD | 21% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 mg J2785 | Office | 96 | 384 | $1,626 |
| Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg J0702 | Office | 14 | 14 | $73 |
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 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcalyst |
|
$22 | — | — |
| VYNDAQEL |
|
$21 | — | — |
| Wegovy |
|
$16 | — | — |
| JARDIANCE |
|
$16 | 296 | — |
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
310 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.