Total Payments
$162,277
2024 Payments
$7,849
Companies
21
Transactions
300
Medicare Patients
6,361
Medicare Billing
$595,195

Payment Breakdown by Category

Consulting$79,109 (48.7%)
Other$57,600 (35.5%)
Travel$15,653 (9.6%)
Food & Beverage$9,916 (6.1%)

Payments by Nature

Nature of Payment Amount Transactions Share
Consulting Fee $79,109 38 48.7%
Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $54,450 19 33.6%
Travel and Lodging $15,653 44 9.6%
Food and Beverage $9,916 197 6.1%
Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $3,150 2 1.9%

Top Paying Companies

Company Total Records Latest Year
Abbott Laboratories $68,201 70 $0 (2024)
Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $57,234 119 $0 (2020)
Boston Scientific Corporation $27,340 38 $0 (2024)
Medtronic, Inc. $7,786 24 $0 (2024)
Biosense Webster, Inc. $808.66 7 $0 (2024)
Amgen Inc. $161.93 9 $0 (2024)
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. $151.67 2 $0 (2024)
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $116.11 8 $0 (2024)
Philips North America LLC $92.02 1 $0 (2024)
Philips Electronics North America Corporation $67.18 2 $0 (2023)

Payment History by Year

Year Amount Transactions Top Company
2024 $7,849 16 Boston Scientific Corporation ($6,979)
2023 $4,654 16 Boston Scientific Corporation ($2,513)
2022 $5,624 30 Medtronic, Inc. ($2,772)
2021 $25,846 17 Abbott Laboratories ($18,550)
2020 $11,950 16 Abbott Laboratories ($11,825)
2019 $51,119 98 Abbott Laboratories ($30,592)
2018 $35,257 57 Medtronic Vascular, Inc. ($25,464)
2017 $19,978 50 Medtronic Vascular, Inc. ($11,767)

All Payment Transactions

300 individual payment records from CMS Open Payments — Page 1 of 12

Date Company Product Nature Form Amount Type
08/22/2024 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation LEQVIO (Drug), ENTRESTO Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $17.47 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
06/27/2024 Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. Optimizer (Device), Optimizer Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $18.34 General
Category: Cardiovascular Device
06/25/2024 Medtronic, Inc. MICRA (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $187.14 General
Category: Pacemakers
06/25/2024 Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. EDARBYCLOR (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $15.68 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
06/24/2024 Abbott Laboratories ENSITE PRECISION (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $178.97 General
Category: Electrophysiology
06/17/2024 Boston Scientific Corporation VIGILANT X4 CRT-D (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $104.00 General
Category: VIGILANT_CRM
06/11/2024 Amgen Inc. Repatha (Biological) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $20.46 General
Category: Cardiology
06/10/2024 Biosense Webster, Inc. CARTO 3 (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $108.35 General
Category: Cardiology
05/24/2024 Boston Scientific Corporation Consulting Fee Cash or cash equivalent $6,875.00 General
Category: General - Therapies_CRM
05/20/2024 Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. EDARBYCLOR (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $20.38 General
Category: CARDIOVASCULAR
05/07/2024 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation ENTRESTO (Drug), LEQVIO Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $15.43 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
04/25/2024 Philips North America LLC (AM5) Lead management (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $92.02 General
Category: Medical Device
04/16/2024 Biosense Webster, Inc. CARTO 3 (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $138.91 General
Category: Cardiology
04/15/2024 Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $23.16 General
03/12/2024 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation ENTRESTO (Drug), LEQVIO Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $16.47 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
02/27/2024 E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. ELIQUIS (Drug) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $17.07 General
Category: Cardiovascular
11/07/2023 Philips Electronics North America Corporation (5044) MCOT (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $14.70 General
Category: Medical Device
10/17/2023 E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. ELIQUIS (Drug) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $17.03 General
Category: Cardiovascular
10/16/2023 AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP FARXIGA (Drug) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $16.79 General
Category: Cardiovascular and Metabolism
10/06/2023 Boston Scientific Corporation Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program Cash or cash equivalent $2,500.00 General
Category: General - Therapies_EP
09/28/2023 Biosense Webster, Inc. CARTO 3 (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $130.68 General
Category: Cardiology
09/21/2023 Philips Electronics North America Corporation (9124) LM Undivided (Device) Food and Beverage Cash or cash equivalent $52.48 General
Category: Medical Device
08/31/2023 Novo Nordisk Inc Ozempic (Drug), Rybelsus Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $13.28 General
Category: Diabetes
06/22/2023 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation LEQVIO (Drug), ENTRESTO Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $13.09 General
Category: Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
05/05/2023 Medtronic, Inc. ARCTIC FRONT ADVANCE (Device) Food and Beverage In-kind items and services $146.37 General
Category: Ablation

Medicare Billing by Year

Year Procedures Beneficiaries Services Submitted Medicare Paid
2023 29 1,975 2,792 $1.9M $166,963
2022 28 1,542 2,236 $1.4M $143,573
2021 30 1,605 2,150 $1.4M $151,814
2020 29 1,239 1,723 $1.3M $132,846
Total Patients
6,361
Total Services
8,901
Medicare Billing
$595,195
Procedure Codes
151

All Medicare Procedures & Services

151 procedure records from CMS Medicare Utilization — Page 7 of 7

HCPCS Description Setting Year Patients Services Charges Medicare Paid Ratio
93228 Heart rhythm tracing, computer analysis, and interpretation of patient-triggered events greater than 24-hour ekg up to 30 days Office 2020 12 12 $2,064 $233.93 11.3%

About John Rickard

John Rickard is a Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program healthcare provider based in Baltimore, Maryland. This provider has been registered with the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) since 05/01/2008. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) number assigned to this provider is 1083880876.

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments database, John Rickard has received a total of $162,277 in payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with $7,849 received in 2024. These payments were reported across 300 transactions from 21 companies. The most common payment nature is "Consulting Fee" ($79,109).

As a Medicare-enrolled provider, Rickard has provided services to 6,361 Medicare beneficiaries, totaling 8,901 services with total Medicare billing of $595,195. Data is available for 4 years (2020–2023), covering 151 distinct procedure/service records.

Practice Information

Products in Payments

  • HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev (Device) $22,518
  • Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator (Device) $17,816
  • Ensite Cardiac Mapping System (Device) $11,768
  • Allure CRT Pacemaker (Device) $4,914
  • Amplia MRI (Device) $4,329
  • GENERAL TACHY (Device) $3,500
  • INGEVITY (Device) $3,500
  • No Associated Product (Device) $3,381
  • General - Therapies (Device) $2,548
  • GENERAL THERAPIES (Device) $2,500
  • GENERAL - THERAPIES (Device) $2,135
  • AMPLATZER Occluders (Device) $2,100
  • COGNIS CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY DEFIBRILLATOR (CRT- (Device) $2,000
  • GALLANT (Device) $1,650
  • HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device (Device) $1,050
  • MICRA (Device) $1,036
  • CardioMEMS HF System (Device) $997.34
  • Allure Quadra RF CRT Pacemaker (Device) $966.00
  • THERAPIES (Device) $867.72
  • Carto 3 System (Device) $430.72

Data Sources

Provider data from NPPES. Payment data from CMS Open Payments. Medicare data from CMS Medicare Provider Utilization. All data is public and updated periodically.

Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Doctors in Baltimore