Matthew Cavender is a Cardiology physician affiliated with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. OpenAlex indexes 197 publications with 11,163 citations (h-index 39). By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Interventional Cardiology profiles in the findmyKOL directory.
Overview
Scholarship
indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID.
Total citations across indexed works.
Hirsch index, productivity × impact (OpenAlex).
Clinical & industry
trials, payments and federal fundingIndustry payments
11 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
11 companies with payments on record in CMS Open Payments (2021 onward), matched to this physician's NPI. The itemized breakdown by company, amount and year is part of the full profile. Why? →
Medicare prescribing footprint (2023)
The drugs this prescriber writes for Medicare patients, grouped by drug class and therapeutic area. Every percentage is a share of their total prescribing, so you can see what they prescribe most. These are proportions, not patient counts or dollar amounts. No condition is inferred: the claims record what was prescribed, never why.
Cardiovascular
80.3%Statin22.2%Atorvastatin Calcium78%Rosuvastatin Calcium22%Part D≥89 patientsBeta blocker13.8%Metoprolol Succinate71%Carvedilol20%Metoprolol Tartrate10%Part D<11 patients+ 11 more classes in this area
Blood & clotting
13.4%Factor Xa inhibitor10.2%Eliquis80%Xarelto21%Part D<11 patientsP2Y12 inhibitor3.2%Clopidogrel65%Brilinta35%Part D<11 patientsMetabolism & gastrointestinal
4.5%SGLT2 inhibitor3.4%Jardiance100%Part D≥16 patientsGLP-1 receptor agonist1.1%Trulicity100%Part D<11 patients
Drug classes come from the WHO ATC and U.S. National Library of Medicine (RxClass) classifications; prescribing counts come from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers file. Each drug is counted once, under its primary class. Medicare fee-for-service only, so no Medicare Advantage, commercial, or pediatric prescribing is included. CMS publishes this data about 17 months after the fact.
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