RxDoctor Payments Data

Alan Bank, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Saint Paul, MNNPI 1063495893

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $26,398 of the $27,900 with a category attached, or 94.6%. Abbott accounts for 96.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $10,889 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $341 in 2025.

$27,900in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 75 payments — averaging $372.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$27K
  • Cvrx, Inc.$500
  • Medtronic$154
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$118
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$80
  • AstraZeneca$51
  • plus $159 from 5 others
$641,344in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 95 payments — averaging $6750.99 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.

  • Medtronic$457K
  • Boston Scientific$100K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$34K
  • Novartis$31K
  • ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.$11K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg$5K
  • plus $4K from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$26,39895%
  • Food & beverage$1,5025%

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

$27,900 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$42,423
Medicare patients
353
Services billed
561

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
VyndamaxTafamidis22$473,687
EliquisApixaban176$239,407
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan93$138,415
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol97$114,938
XareltoRivaroxaban101$109,201
JardianceEmpagliflozin86$107,853
Metoprolol Succinate392$7,930
Potassium Chloride162$5,779
Bumetanide49$3,824
Torsemide78$3,527
Atorvastatin Calcium225$3,281
Furosemide323$3,110
Lisinopril184$2,596
Losartan Potassium178$2,459
Carvedilol183$2,148

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
PfizerVyndamax, Eliquis$15$713,094198 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$51$114,93897 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$45$107,85386 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 80th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.

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