RxDoctor Payments Data

Alexi Zemsky, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Portland, ORNPI 1598944928

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (36.3%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 39.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,472 and has fallen 87.8% since, to $787 in 2025.

$12,652in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 131 payments — averaging $96.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$5K
  • Merit Medical Systems Inc$4K
  • Boston Scientific$2K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$138
  • Circa Scientific, Inc.$120
  • plus $154 from 5 others
$33,965in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $1617.38 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$34K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,84030%
  • Travel & lodging$4,59436%
  • Food & beverage$4,21833%

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

$12,652 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 37 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Oregon.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$158,995
Medicare patients
794
Services billed
1,619

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
EliquisApixaban347$477,041
XareltoRivaroxaban113$150,590
Dofetilide109$21,857
MultaqDronedarone Hcl14$20,000
Flecainide Acetate247$9,796
Metoprolol Succinate290$5,116
SotalolSotalol Hcl238$4,777
Amiodarone Hcl124$2,464
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Xr)Diltiazem Hcl50$1,997
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl35$1,239
Dilt-XrDiltiazem Hcl25$992
Warfarin Sodium56$750
Verapamil ErVerapamil Hcl29$465
Metoprolol Tartrate61$455
Carvedilol24$206

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$20$477,041347 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 65th percentile of 37 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Oregon.

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