Who Paid My Doc
Steven Romero
Cardiovascular Disease La Jolla, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1629049556 CMS profile 979357
9898 Genesee Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037
General payments
$24,101
Research payments
$309
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Steven Romero of La Jolla, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $24,101 across 180 general payments and $309 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 90th percentile of Cardiovascular Disease 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 | $3,133 | 20 | |
| 2024 | General | $667 | 18 | |
| 2023 | General | $4,135 | 39 | |
| 2022 | General | $9,325 | 27 | |
| 2021 | General | $1,577 | 19 | |
| 2020 | General | $1,519 | 20 | |
| 2019 | General | $3,746 | 37 | |
| 2019 | Research | $309 | 2 |
Beside peers
- Steven Romero
- Cardiovascular Disease median
- Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Steven Romero were reported at $3,133. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.
Show as a table
| Year | Steven Romero | Cardiovascular Disease median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $3,746 | $450 | $127–$1,392 | $163 |
| 2020 | $1,519 | $242 | $77–$751 | $114 |
| 2021 | $1,577 | $335 | $101–$1,037 | $132 |
| 2022 | $9,325 | $395 | $121–$1,211 | $149 |
| 2023 | $4,135 | $443 | $136–$1,283 | $160 |
| 2024 | $667 | $450 | $136–$1,323 | $164 |
| 2025 | $3,133 | $432 | $132–$1,252 | $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 · 8 drugsPart D claims
178
Drug cost
$76,975
Branded share of claims
47.8%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 59 | $54,985 | |
| Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan | Brand | 15 | $15,088 | |
| Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab | Brand | 11 | $6,066 | |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | Generic | 34 | $407 | |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | Generic | 12 | $195 | |
| Carvedilol | Generic | 13 | $107 | |
| Lisinopril | Generic | 19 | $76 | |
| Amlodipine Besylate | Generic | 15 | $52 |
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 · 38 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$113,708
Medicare patients
720
Services billed
1,774
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 51% | |
| Arthritis | 51% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 50% | |
| Heart failure | 47% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 35% | |
| Diabetes | 28% | |
| COPD | 22% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, perflutren lipid microspheres, per ml Q9957 | Office | 69 | 140 | $4,651 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEQVIO |
|
$50 | — | — |
| Arcalyst |
|
$40 | — | — |
| FARXIGA |
|
$15 | — | — |
| ENTRESTO |
|
$11 | 15 | — |
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
182 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.