RxDoctor Payments Data

Ali Ziaee, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1184689549

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,041in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 167 payments — averaging $30.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abiomed$1K
  • Abbott$810
  • Edwards Lifesciences$701
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$486
  • Philips North America LLC$336
  • Cvrx, Inc.$321
  • plus $1K from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,041100%

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

$5,041 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 182 interventional cardiology providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$379,169
Medicare patients
1,174
Services billed
4,522

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
EliquisApixaban1,688$1,720,566
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan439$447,900
XareltoRivaroxaban473$447,616
MultaqDronedarone Hcl62$98,777
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol76$68,233
JardianceEmpagliflozin54$63,083
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab69$55,746
BrilintaTicagrelor58$41,743
Ranolazine ErRanolazine256$32,067
OzempicSemaglutide18$19,768
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate1,472$15,314
Metoprolol Succinate1,046$11,433
Prasugrel Hcl113$10,812
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate32$10,161
Midodrine Hcl71$8,115

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$218$1,720,5661,688 claims
NovartisEntresto$17$447,900439 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$60$109,976134 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 25th percentile of 182 interventional cardiology providers in Missouri.

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