RxDoctor Payments Data

Alejandro Aquino, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Chicago, ILNPI 1669628012

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,491in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 163 payments — averaging $33.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • Abiomed$713
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$280
  • AstraZeneca$246
  • plus $705 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,08320%
  • Food & beverage$4,40380%
  • 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.

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

$5,491 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 303 interventional cardiology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$143,311
Medicare patients
1,551
Services billed
4,424

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
EliquisApixaban86$95,167
XareltoRivaroxaban44$36,625
BrilintaTicagrelor12$10,414
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate157$1,731
Ranolazine ErRanolazine18$1,704
Warfarin Sodium99$1,571
Metoprolol Succinate153$1,546
Carvedilol79$817
Ezetimibe32$806
Atorvastatin Calcium113$757
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate63$650
Rosuvastatin Calcium67$534
Amlodipine Besylate97$413
Losartan Potassium32$392
Nitroglycerin21$392

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$48$36,62544 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$246$10,41412 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 35th percentile of 303 interventional cardiology providers in Illinois.

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