RxDoctor Payments Data

Aaron Berger, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1710053145

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,948in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $102.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$650
  • Johnson & Johnson$495
  • Medtronic$287
  • Biotronik Inc.$164
  • Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.$117
  • Abbott$94
  • plus $142 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$65033%
  • Travel & lodging$28715%
  • Food & beverage$1,00752%
  • Education$50%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.1$650
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)7$495
Medtronic1$287
Biotronik Inc.1$164
Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.1$117
Abbott2$94
Novartis2$40
Boston Scientific1$36
GSK2$34
Polynovo North America LLC1$32

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

$1,948 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 214 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$312,159
Medicare patients
983
Services billed
3,900

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
EliquisApixaban214$200,859
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan28$34,672
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf113$34,302
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf72$14,868
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$13,646
XareltoRivaroxaban13$12,825
JardianceEmpagliflozin15$12,294
MresviaRsv Vaccine, Pref, Mrna/Pf15$4,373
Metoprolol Succinate210$3,125
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl82$1,999
Atorvastatin Calcium135$1,106
Rosuvastatin Calcium75$908
Nifedipine ErNifedipine47$799
Ezetimibe31$794
Amlodipine Besylate162$652

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
GSKArexvy, Shingrix$34$49,170185 claims
NovartisEntresto$40$34,67228 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$495$12,82513 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. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 10th percentile of 214 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in New York.

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