RxDoctor Payments Data

Andres Vargas Estrada, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Tallahassee, FLNPI 1760794192

Payments from drug & device makers

$83,893in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 299 payments — averaging $280.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Procyrion, Inc.$59K
  • Inari Medical, Inc.$6K
  • Penumbra, Inc.$4K
  • Boston Scientific$4K
  • Abbott$2K
  • Abiomed$2K
  • plus $7K from 26 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$7,20636%
  • Food & beverage$12,65764%
  • Education$40%

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

$83,893 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 623 interventional cardiology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$219,564
Medicare patients
417
Services billed
1,271

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol119$91,101
EliquisApixaban108$86,148
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan64$53,558
XareltoRivaroxaban58$46,464
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab51$36,511
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab31$27,791
BrilintaTicagrelor35$23,607
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$20,180
Icosapent Ethyl23$10,868
Praluent PenAlirocumab16$7,727
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol11$7,684
Ranolazine ErRanolazine63$5,390
Ezetimibe131$3,044
Metoprolol Succinate180$2,587
Atorvastatin Calcium217$2,267

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$25$114,708154 claims
PfizerEliquis$31$86,148108 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$26$46,46458 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$169$20,18027 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 80th percentile of 623 interventional cardiology providers in Florida.

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