Richard Hongo is a Cardiology physician affiliated with California Pacific Medical Center. OpenAlex indexes 159 publications with 8,115 citations (h-index 41). By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology 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 fundingContact
The practice address and phone this provider lists in the federal NPPES (CMS) registry.
Practice address
1100 Van Ness Ave Fl 5
San Francisco, CA 94109
Telephone
415-600-6500Provider last certified this registry record 16 Jun 2021.
Industry payments
12 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021 onward. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:
- Abbott LaboratoriesProgram year202553 payments$48,117openpaymentsdata.cms.gov ↗
- Biosense Webster, Inc.Program year202512 payments
- Medtronic, Inc.Program year20253 payments
Payment records matched to this physician's NPI in CMS Open Payments, program years 2021 onward.
Medicare prescribing footprint (2024)
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.
Blood & clotting
51.1%Factor Xa inhibitor51.1%Eliquis87%Xarelto13%Part D<11 patientsCardiovascular
48.9%Beta blocker22.5%Metoprolol Succinate60%Sotalol30%Carvedilol11%Part D<11 patientsAntiarrhythmic22.3%Flecainide Acetate41%Amiodarone Hcl36%Multaq23%Part D<11 patients+ 1 more class in this area
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.
Publications
Matched to this physician's OpenAlex author record; most-cited works shown first.
- Atrioesophageal Fistula Rates Before and After Adoption of Active Esophageal Cooling During Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
JACC. Clinical electrophysiology
2023 - Impact of weight loss on ablation outcome in obese patients with longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
2017 - Procedural findings and ablation outcome in patients with atrial fibrillation referred after two or more failed catheter ablations
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
2017 - Left Atrial Appendage Isolation in Patients With Longstanding Persistent AF Undergoing Catheter Ablation
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
2016
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