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

Robert Frantz

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Rochester, MN Medical Doctor

NPI 1730153503 CMS profile 124303

200 1St St Sw, Rochester, MN 55905

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General payments

$141,356

111 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$2,389

Paid to them · 4 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$1,343,833 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Robert Frantz of Rochester, MN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $141,356 across 111 general payments and $2,389 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $1,343,833 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 90th percentile of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $33,838 33
2024 General $15,749 15
2023 General $19,158 21
2022 General $17,596 11
2022 Research $2,389 4
2021 General $13,125 5
2020 General $26,785 5
2019 General $15,106 21

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Robert Frantz
  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology median
  • Middle half of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Robert Frantz were reported at $33,838. Among 967 Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,024 and the middle half received between $289 and $6,890.

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Year Robert Frantz Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $15,106 $863 $224–$4,562 $163
2020 $26,785 $452 $122–$3,992 $114
2021 $13,125 $550 $159–$3,571 $132
2022 $17,596 $729 $221–$4,357 $149
2023 $19,158 $1,002 $309–$5,827 $160
2024 $15,749 $931 $273–$5,204 $164
2025 $33,838 $1,024 $289–$6,890 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Ltd $43,892 29 payments
  2. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $41,647 47 payments
  3. Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $26,668 16 payments
  4. Insmed, Inc. $16,576 11 payments
  5. Chiesi USA, Inc. $6,061 3 payments
  6. United Therapeutics Corporation $4,505 2 payments
  7. Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $1,800 1 payment
  8. Abbott Laboratories $178 1 payment
  9. Shape Memory Medical Inc. $28 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $118,217 34 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $20,928 37 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $2,211 40 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. OPSUMIT $26,657 15 payments
  2. UPTRAVI $22,339 10 payments
  3. WINREVAIR $5,186 27 payments
  4. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT $178 1 payment
  5. IMPEDE EMBOLIZATION PLUG $28 1 payment

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Insmed, Inc. $2,389 4 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 31 drugs

Part D claims

1,415

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: 1,489

Drug cost

$8,144,110

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: $885,869

Branded share of claims

42.6%

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: 32.1%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Opsumit Macitentan Brand 188 $2,378,232
Tyvaso Dpi Treprostinil Brand 86 $2,067,193
Adempas Riociguat Brand 112 $1,527,919
Winrevair Sotatercept-Csrk Brand 73 $1,117,453
Uptravi Selexipag Brand 13 $304,534
Letairis Ambrisentan Brand 13 $159,080
Tracleer Bosentan Brand 12 $152,353
Ambrisentan Generic 41 $151,401
Bosentan Generic 12 $92,815
Tadalafil Generic 117 $86,724

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 31 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 800 Part D prescribers listed as Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 34 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$43,468

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

243

Average age 69

Services billed

578

107 women, 136 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%
Heart failure 67%
Chronic kidney disease 61%
Ischemic heart disease 50%
Atrial fibrillation 47%
Diabetes 41%
Arthritis 39%
Depression 30%

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

2 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
OPSUMIT
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $2,025
$2,025 188 —
WINREVAIR
  • Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $1,536
$1,536 73 —

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

115 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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