RxDoctor Payments Data

Andrew Kaplan, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Mesa, AZNPI 1154399343

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.0%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 43 manufacturers reported payments, led by Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. at 57.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $79,061 and has fallen 87.5% since, to $9,850 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$203,509in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 571 payments — averaging $356.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$117K
  • Avertix Medical, Inc$61K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$4K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$4K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$3K
  • Pfizer$3K
  • plus $12K from 37 others
$251,230in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 87 payments — averaging $2887.70 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.

  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$116K
  • Boston Scientific$55K
  • Medtronic$48K
  • Abbott$25K
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$7K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$87,46843%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$78,75439%
  • Travel & lodging$14,9167%
  • Food & beverage$22,24211%
  • Education$1290%

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

$203,509 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$507,755
Medicare patients
927
Services billed
7,960

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
EliquisApixaban171$166,446
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan86$85,730
MultaqDronedarone Hcl49$56,175
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol57$47,598
XareltoRivaroxaban35$32,196
JardianceEmpagliflozin34$29,590
Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl45$4,693
Verapamil ErVerapamil Hcl112$3,552
Flecainide Acetate114$2,865
Verapamil SrVerapamil Hcl71$2,847
SotalolSotalol Hcl167$2,753
Amiodarone Hcl178$2,606
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate17$2,304
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl79$1,928
Metoprolol Succinate191$1,882

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$2,892$166,446171 claims
NovartisEntresto$143$85,73086 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$84$56,17549 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$135$47,59857 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$133$32,19635 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$118$29,59034 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 95th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.

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