RxDoctor Payments Data

Andrew Pogozelski, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1215199898

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $348,617 of the $401,062 with a category attached, or 86.9%. 35 manufacturers reported payments, led by Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. at 41.5% of the total. Among advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in PA 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.

$401,062in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 805 payments — averaging $498.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$167K
  • Bayer$84K
  • Pfizer$75K
  • Merck$41K
  • Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$17K
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$14K
  • plus $5K from 29 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$15,0944%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$348,61787%
  • Travel & lodging$21,4555%
  • Food & beverage$15,7714%
  • Education$1260%

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

$401,062 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 96 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$392,781
Medicare patients
1,922
Services billed
6,341

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
VyndamaxTafamidis393$9,288,041
AdempasRiociguat227$3,025,414
UptraviSelexipag66$1,582,713
EliquisApixaban601$651,301
OpsumitMacitentan43$528,023
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan154$245,845
XareltoRivaroxaban176$211,589
JardianceEmpagliflozin120$139,293
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol60$71,014
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab62$61,172
Ambrisentan21$47,602
Praluent PenAlirocumab27$27,334
BrilintaTicagrelor29$24,841
Sildenafil Citrate19$13,150
Metoprolol Succinate595$11,293

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, Eliquis$74,789$9,939,342994 claims
BayerAdempas$83,594$3,025,414227 claims
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Uptravi, Opsumit$166,573$2,110,736109 claims
NovartisEntresto$506$245,845154 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$409$211,589176 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$108$139,293120 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$450$95,85589 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 96 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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