RxDoctor Payments Data

Arif Hakim, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Detroit, MINPI 1831267376

Payments from drug & device makers

$255in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $18.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.$98
  • Pfizer$52
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$50
  • Merck$39
  • Novartis$16

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$255100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$255 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 760 cardiovascular disease providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$269,484
Medicare patients
534
Services billed
2,842

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan41$35,444
JardianceEmpagliflozin18$14,617
EliquisApixaban17$13,668
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$10,667
Metoprolol Succinate47$951
Carvedilol58$616
Amiodarone Hcl15$586
Eplerenone11$454
Losartan Potassium38$235
Atorvastatin Calcium24$226
Potassium Chloride28$208
Amlodipine Besylate36$191
Spironolactone40$180
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate21$170
Chlorthalidone13$165

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
NovartisEntresto$16$35,44441 claims
PfizerEliquis$52$13,66817 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 15th percentile of 760 cardiovascular disease providers in Michigan.

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