RxDoctor Payments Data

Alireza Nezhad, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Brockton, MANPI 1689836868

Payments from drug & device makers

$254in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $16.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$120
  • Merck$55
  • Edwards Lifesciences$21
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$20
  • Novartis$16
  • Pfizer$11
  • plus $10 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$254100%

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
20
21
22
25

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.

How this compares

$254 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$191,237
Medicare patients
1,231
Services billed
2,760

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
EliquisApixaban604$558,766
XareltoRivaroxaban198$254,081
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan246$252,611
JardianceEmpagliflozin45$48,474
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab57$35,980
BrilintaTicagrelor33$26,048
Praluent PenAlirocumab51$25,198
Metoprolol Succinate858$17,255
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol13$15,457
Atorvastatin Calcium580$7,952
Ezetimibe131$6,262
Rosuvastatin Calcium215$5,888
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl92$3,958
Losartan Potassium320$3,582
Amlodipine Besylate427$3,478

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$11$558,766604 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$120$254,081198 claims
NovartisEntresto$16$252,611246 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 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.

Other cardiovascular disease in Brockton

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