RxDoctor Payments Data

Alifeya Attarwala, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Sacramento, CANPI 1831462365

Payments from drug & device makers

$206in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $51.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Edwards Lifesciences$120
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$62
  • AstraZeneca$23

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$206100%

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

19
21
23

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

$206 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$313,910
Medicare patients
1,285
Services billed
3,612

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
EliquisApixaban544$700,077
XareltoRivaroxaban106$162,228
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan78$96,984
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol67$73,320
MultaqDronedarone Hcl28$57,929
JardianceEmpagliflozin45$47,970
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab34$40,530
Praluent PenAlirocumab13$14,702
BrilintaTicagrelor18$13,448
Metoprolol Succinate582$9,310
Flecainide Acetate97$4,909
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate14$4,210
Losartan Potassium305$3,409
Nebivolol Hcl22$3,317
Atorvastatin Calcium366$3,291

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$23$86,76885 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 15th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Sacramento

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