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

Scott Baron

Interventional Cardiology Carmichael, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1215038930 CMS profile 281658

6555 Coyle Ave Ste 280, Carmichael, CA 95608

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General payments

$230,681

677 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$117,248 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2021

Through program year 2025, Scott Baron of Carmichael, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $230,681 across 677 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $117,248 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 96th 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 $11,865 45
2024 General $19,536 37
2023 General $73,776 97
2022 General $63,998 178
2021 General $7,182 102
2020 General $6,742 74
2019 General $47,582 144

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Scott Baron were reported at $11,865. 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 Scott Baron Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $47,582 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $6,742 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $7,182 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $63,998 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $73,776 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $19,536 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $11,865 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $128,360 123 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $39,580 78 payments
  3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $13,788 27 payments
  4. Pfizer Inc. $12,760 37 payments
  5. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $9,174 12 payments
  6. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $6,126 34 payments
  7. Abbott Laboratories $5,865 13 payments
  8. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $4,122 30 payments
  9. Medtronic, Inc. $2,502 88 payments
  10. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC $2,195 24 payments
  11. Other $6,208 211 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 $172,988 59 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $30,156 93 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $13,835 511 payments
  4. Honoraria $7,560 1 payment
  5. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $4,275 2 payments
  6. Consulting Fee $1,768 1 payment
  7. Education $98 10 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. VERQUVO Cardiovascular $144,346 136 payments
  2. VERQUVO Cardiovascular $55,411 45 payments
  3. Repatha Cardiology $28,684 60 payments
  4. ENTRESTO $13,750 26 payments
  5. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular;Metabolic Disease $12,639 25 payments
  6. REPATHA Cardiovascular $10,896 18 payments
  7. Inpefa $9,174 12 payments
  8. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular $6,028 28 payments
  9. FARXIGA $3,968 20 payments
  10. AMPLATZER Cardiac Plug $3,844 5 payments
  11. Other $14,283 407 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 · 74 drugs

Part D claims

6,996

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 2,236

Drug cost

$2,254,534

Median for Interventional Cardiology: $380,412

Branded share of claims

33.1%

Median for Interventional Cardiology: 27.8%

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 388 $471,383
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 318 $331,572
Vyndamax Tafamidis Brand 12 $264,144
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 235 $222,756
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 189 $198,492
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 224 $195,335
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 83 $92,308
Repatha Syringe Evolocumab Brand 72 $57,718
Multaq Dronedarone Hcl Brand 40 $54,036
Praluent Pen Alirocumab Brand 47 $46,053

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 74 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 · 87 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$302,783

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

782

Average age 78

Services billed

3,733

398 women, 384 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 53%
Arthritis 53%
Heart failure 43%
Atrial fibrillation 38%
Diabetes 35%
Chronic kidney disease 34%
COPD 20%

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

3 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
VERQUVO
  • Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $15,999
$15,999 — —
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $2,955
$2,955 261 —
CAMZYOS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $16
$16 — —

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

677 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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