Relationship between industry payments to physicians and prescription patterns for PCSK9is, ARNis and DOACs: A report from the NCDR PINNACLE registry
Patients with ASCVD or HFrEF whose physicians received industry payments were more likely to be prescribed PCSK9 inhibitors or ARNi, regardless of the payment amount. For DOACs, an association with prescribing was observed only among physicians who received higher-value payments.
Authors
- Amarnath Annapureddy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9732-4903)
- Sanket S. Dhruva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0674-2032)
- Elias J. Dayoub (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4100-5073)
- Jeptha P. Curtis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6872-0501)
- Gowtham R. Grandhi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2800-2150)
- Benjamin A. Rodwin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7771-5416)
- Joseph S. Ross (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9218-3320)
- Karl E. Minges (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9063-8272)
- Karthik Murugiah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7932-382X)
- Luke Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8468-4590)
- Saket R. Girotra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4784-4513)
- Tariq Ahmad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7596-4697)
Institutions
- Nebraska Medical Center (US)
- San Francisco VA Medical Center (US)
- Yale New Haven Hospital (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Yale University (US)
- VA Connecticut Healthcare System (US)
- Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- Baim Institute for Clinical Research (US)
- Yale New Haven Health System (US)
- Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU (US)
- University of Nebraska Medical Center (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Heart Journal
- Published
- 2025-07-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2025.07.015
- Primary Topic
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- American College of Cardiology Foundation