RxDoctor Payments Data

Andrew Sauer, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Lees Summit, MONPI 1356546956

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $255,762 of the $411,083 with a category attached, or 62.2%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 51.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $87,904, 2.1 times the $41,507 reported in 2019. Among advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in MO 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.

$411,083in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 450 payments — averaging $913.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$210K
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$55K
  • Boston Scientific$51K
  • Bayer$36K
  • Amgen$15K
  • Novartis$14K
  • plus $29K from 14 others
$3,260,065in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 330 payments — averaging $9878.99 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.

  • Abbott$1M
  • Bayer$784K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$750K
  • Amgen$162K
  • Vifor (international) Ltd.$156K
  • Novartis$146K
  • plus $246K from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$255,76262%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$122,18230%
  • Travel & lodging$19,7425%
  • Food & beverage$13,3243%
  • Education$730%

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

$411,083 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 26 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$48,980
Medicare patients
278
Services billed
632

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin177$165,812
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan142$147,119
OzempicSemaglutide105$120,071
EliquisApixaban109$93,580
MounjaroTirzepatide24$25,240
XareltoRivaroxaban21$18,378
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab13$14,880
Sirolimus12$6,618
Eplerenone96$6,371
Tacrolimus47$3,606
Mycophenolate Mofetil26$1,961
Metoprolol Succinate182$1,794
Rosuvastatin Calcium116$1,609
Spironolactone253$1,559
Torsemide63$1,478

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$2,715$165,812177 claims
NovartisEntresto$14,388$147,119142 claims
PfizerEliquis$29$93,580109 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 26 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Missouri.

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