RxDoctor Payments Data

Andres Carmona Rubio, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1750722781

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.2%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Pfizer accounts for 60.8% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $17,419, 8.2 times the $2,121 reported in 2019.

$27,471in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $465.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$17K
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$7K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$289
  • Biotronik Inc.$259
  • plus $777 from 4 others
$23,485in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $4697.00 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.

  • Eidos Therapeutics, Inc.$23K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$15,43156%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,95018%
  • Travel & lodging$3,51713%
  • Food & beverage$3,39012%
  • Education$1831%

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

$27,471 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 62 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$67,666
Medicare patients
287
Services billed
556

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
VyndamaxTafamidis224$5,578,006
VyndaqelTafamidis Meglumine34$733,032
JardianceEmpagliflozin310$455,238
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan298$414,016
EliquisApixaban121$133,409
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol73$96,127
CorlanorIvabradine Hcl16$13,765
VerquvoVericiguat11$8,454
XareltoRivaroxaban11$8,239
Metoprolol Succinate344$8,029
Digoxin34$5,058
Isosorbide Dinitrate29$4,716
Eplerenone40$4,043
Spironolactone415$3,145
Torsemide112$2,742

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
PfizerVyndamax, Vyndaqel, Eliquis$16,701$6,444,448379 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 75th percentile of 62 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Ohio.

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