RxDoctor Payments Data

Anjali Vaidya, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Philadelphia, PANPI 1902969371

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $469,781 of the $762,013 with a category attached, or 61.6%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. at 44.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $173,214, 2.2 times the $80,136 reported in 2019. 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.

$762,013in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 828 payments — averaging $920.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$341K
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$190K
  • Merck$119K
  • Bayer$111K
  • Medtronic$360
  • Gilead$293
  • plus $117 from 1 others
$42,668in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $7111.38 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.

  • Bayer$43K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$203,39027%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$469,78162%
  • Travel & lodging$69,9239%
  • Food & beverage$18,7132%
  • Education$2060%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.352$341,018
United Therapeutics Corporation233$190,119
Merck128$118,950
Bayer97$111,157
Medtronic(2 entities)8$360
Gilead9$293
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC1$117

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

$762,013 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
$33,656
Medicare patients
737
Services billed
1,620

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
OpsumitMacitentan347$4,397,969
AdempasRiociguat276$3,767,104
Orenitram ErTreprostinil Diolamine97$2,077,072
UptraviSelexipag67$1,560,838
Tyvaso DpiTreprostinil61$1,430,081
WinrevairSotatercept-Csrk35$583,499
OpsynviMacitentan/Tadalafil25$316,029
Ambrisentan31$150,129
Sildenafil Citrate147$67,606
Tadalafil82$65,929
AdcircaTadalafil13$53,283
EliquisApixaban33$29,160
Bumetanide45$1,333
Potassium Chloride84$1,261
Torsemide40$780

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
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Opsumit, Uptravi, Opsynvi$341,018$6,274,836439 claims
BayerAdempas$111,157$3,767,104276 claims
MerckWinrevair$118,950$583,49935 claims
United Therapeutics CorporationAdcirca$190,119$53,28313 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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