RxDoctor Payments Data

Andrew Sumner, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Allentown, PANPI 1114975737

Payments from drug & device makers

$197,051in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $4582.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Eli Lilly$156K
  • CSL Behring$22K
  • AstraZeneca$10K
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$8K
  • Medtronic$262
  • Abbott$253
  • plus $301 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$838100%

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

19
20
22
23
24
25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Eli Lilly7$155,903
CSL Behring18$22,206
AstraZeneca(2 entities)5$10,367
Astrazeneca UK Limited2$7,759
Medtronic(2 entities)3$262
Abbott2$253
Boston Scientific3$142
GE HealthCare2$114
Abiomed1$45

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

$197,051 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.

See all cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$71,844
Medicare patients
566
Services billed
1,071

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
EliquisApixaban278$331,715
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab295$241,644
Praluent PenAlirocumab121$88,910
XareltoRivaroxaban39$56,520
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan32$52,338
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl62$47,176
JardianceEmpagliflozin23$36,103
Icosapent Ethyl78$20,141
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab11$14,558
Ezetimibe414$11,284
NexletolBempedoic Acid16$10,909
Metoprolol Succinate494$9,577
Rosuvastatin Calcium311$4,278
Dofetilide11$4,141
Atorvastatin Calcium319$3,845

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other cardiovascular disease in Allentown

See the full list for Pennsylvania

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →