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

Richard Fish

Interventional Cardiology Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1487608352 CMS profile 202498

6624 Fannin St, Suite 2600, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$8,580

438 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, Richard Fish of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,580 across 438 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 54th 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 $643 33
2024 General $1,421 63
2023 General $1,259 69
2022 General $1,764 99
2021 General $1,223 65
2020 General $412 23
2019 General $1,857 86

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Richard Fish were reported at $643. 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 Richard Fish Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,857 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $412 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $1,223 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $1,764 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $1,259 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $1,421 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $643 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,184 65 payments
  2. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $925 69 payments
  3. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $698 33 payments
  4. Novo Nordisk Inc $689 35 payments
  5. Amgen Inc. $558 36 payments
  6. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $421 29 payments
  7. Pfizer Inc. $379 21 payments
  8. Abbott Laboratories $359 9 payments
  9. Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. $288 18 payments
  10. Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. $275 9 payments
  11. Other $2,804 114 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $8,566 437 payments
  2. Education $14 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. XARELTO $925 69 payments
  2. LifeVest $698 33 payments
  3. Repatha $558 36 payments
  4. LEQVIO $481 26 payments
  5. Ozempic $455 24 payments
  6. ENTRESTO Cardiology/Vascular Diseases $333 17 payments
  7. ENTRESTO Cardiovascular $316 19 payments
  8. ELIQUIS $288 20 payments
  9. Livalo $288 18 payments
  10. Corlanor $220 14 payments
  11. Other $5,073 223 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 · 53 drugs

Part D claims

3,346

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$732,367

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

25.4%

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 124 $152,199
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 102 $144,001
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 105 $109,080
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 59 $70,302
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 41 $54,512
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 25 $47,668
Praluent Pen Alirocumab Brand 50 $47,306
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 31 $39,650
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 15 $15,861
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 299 $7,306

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 53 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 · 37 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$54,917

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

219

Average age 77

Services billed

753

80 women, 139 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%
Ischemic heart disease 61%
Arthritis 42%
Atrial fibrillation 37%
Diabetes 31%
Chronic kidney disease 27%
Heart failure 22%
Cancer 17%

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 13 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 $148
$148 — —
CAMZYOS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $133
$133 — —
Wegovy
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $99
$99 — —
ENTRESTO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $83
$83 25 —
Ozempic
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $72
$72 31 —

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

438 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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