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

Samir Bhatt

Interventional Cardiology Santa Maria, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1295925972 CMS profile 240855

1510 E Main St, Ste 101, Santa Maria, CA 93454

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General payments

$322,750

912 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, Samir Bhatt of Santa Maria, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $322,750 across 912 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 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 $56,016 140
2024 General $68,008 200
2023 General $58,661 159
2022 General $36,867 115
2021 General $37,837 103
2020 General $15,340 66
2019 General $50,021 129

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Samir Bhatt were reported at $56,016. 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 Samir Bhatt Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $50,021 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $15,340 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $37,837 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $36,867 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $58,661 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $68,008 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $56,016 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Amgen Inc. $194,272 330 payments
  2. Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. $44,616 82 payments
  3. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC $22,868 21 payments
  4. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $12,580 29 payments
  5. Boston Scientific Corporation $12,135 75 payments
  6. Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $10,704 24 payments
  7. Amarin Pharma Inc. $9,837 21 payments
  8. Abbott Laboratories $3,647 60 payments
  9. Abiomed $1,818 25 payments
  10. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $1,437 13 payments
  11. Other $8,836 232 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $242,406 110 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $51,558 177 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $28,735 621 payments
  4. Education $51 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Repatha Cardiology $139,971 247 payments
  2. REPATHA Cardiovascular $54,169 81 payments
  3. NEXLETOL $44,616 82 payments
  4. NEXLIZET $44,133 58 payments
  5. PRALUENT Cardiovascular $22,868 21 payments
  6. XARELTO $12,673 31 payments
  7. PRALUENT Cardiovascular And Metabolism $10,552 22 payments
  8. Vascepa $9,678 17 payments
  9. WATCHMAN Access System $9,247 16 payments
  10. Impella $1,795 24 payments
  11. Other $18,019 388 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 · 43 drugs

Part D claims

4,434

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$1,032,501

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

25.1%

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
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 285 $309,825
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 170 $224,205
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 154 $196,682
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 46 $56,819
Praluent Pen Alirocumab Brand 36 $37,097
Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl Brand 47 $31,676
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 24 $28,140
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 36 $26,103
Nexlizet Bempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe Brand 20 $21,991
Nexletol Bempedoic Acid Brand 24 $20,285

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 43 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 · 54 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$289,515

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

792

Average age 77

Services billed

4,821

348 women, 444 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 59%
Arthritis 47%
Atrial fibrillation 40%
Diabetes 37%
Heart failure 33%
Chronic kidney disease 33%
Depression 22%

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 17 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
$56,423 285 —
NEXLETOL
$4,568 24 —
NEXLIZET
$4,437 20 —
JARDIANCE
$292 24 —
LEQVIO
$163 — —

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

912 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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