RxDoctor Payments Data

Amjad Sheikh, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Chicago, ILNPI 1851326110

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,737in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 138 payments — averaging $27.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GE HealthCare$664
  • Johnson & Johnson$510
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$495
  • Novartis$247
  • AstraZeneca$242
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$237
  • plus $1K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$36910%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$3509%
  • Travel & lodging$2958%
  • Food & beverage$2,61270%
  • Education$1113%

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

$3,737 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$390,244
Medicare patients
1,160
Services billed
5,437

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
EliquisApixaban96$99,362
XareltoRivaroxaban39$32,565
JardianceEmpagliflozin15$11,060
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan15$9,401
BrilintaTicagrelor12$8,919
Metoprolol Succinate421$7,339
Nifedipine ErNifedipine75$3,803
Nebivolol Hcl60$3,079
Flecainide Acetate78$2,048
Amlodipine Besylate313$1,939
Atorvastatin Calcium242$1,930
Losartan Potassium180$1,856
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate165$1,667
Spironolactone-HctzSpironolact/Hydrochlorothiazid43$1,249
Amiodarone Hcl62$1,043

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$79$99,36296 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$510$32,56539 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$195$11,06015 claims
NovartisEntresto$247$9,40115 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$242$8,91912 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 60th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.

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