RxDoctor Payments Data

Aamir Cheema, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Huntington, WVNPI 1154388254

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $37,948 of the $51,243 with a category attached, or 74.1%. Novartis accounts for 70.3% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $47,716 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $978 in 2025.

$51,243in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 133 payments — averaging $385.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$36K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$8K
  • Pfizer$5K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$761
  • Boston Scientific$562
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$500
  • plus $1K from 10 others
$71,557in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $5963.08 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$61K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$10K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$583
  • Amgen$5

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$5001%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$37,94874%
  • Grants$450%
  • Travel & lodging$9,90919%
  • Food & beverage$2,7965%
  • Education$450%

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

Too few clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in West Virginiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$356,164
Medicare patients
1,217
Services billed
5,309

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban529$536,158
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan166$166,164
XareltoRivaroxaban136$156,151
MultaqDronedarone Hcl65$83,845
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol27$17,111
Flecainide Acetate542$16,892
Dofetilide60$15,712
Metoprolol Succinate822$13,006
CorlanorIvabradine Hcl17$10,192
SotalolSotalol Hcl486$7,054
Mexiletine Hcl104$6,576
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl227$5,940
Amiodarone Hcl84$3,176
Carvedilol241$1,753
Propafenone Hcl46$1,654

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerEliquis$4,667$536,158529 claims
NovartisEntresto$36,049$166,164166 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$58$156,151136 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$14$17,11127 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. There are too few clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in West Virginiaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

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