RxDoctor Payments Data

Arun Venkat, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Bridgeton, MONPI 1255399267

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,449in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 169 payments — averaging $14.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abiomed$773
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$330
  • Penumbra, Inc.$245
  • Novartis$175
  • Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$162
  • Abbott$144
  • plus $620 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,449100%

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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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

$2,449 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 391 cardiovascular disease providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$174,846
Medicare patients
1,341
Services billed
3,042

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
EliquisApixaban510$393,028
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan60$68,271
XareltoRivaroxaban70$57,255
BrilintaTicagrelor81$44,210
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol46$40,997
JardianceEmpagliflozin37$32,860
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab31$13,259
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab19$10,488
Ranolazine ErRanolazine70$5,775
Metoprolol Succinate452$5,031
Atorvastatin Calcium430$3,688
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate261$2,726
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate212$2,476
Losartan Potassium323$2,160
Amiodarone Hcl42$1,742

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
PfizerEliquis$105$393,028510 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$13$85,207127 claims
NovartisEntresto$175$68,27160 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 50th percentile of 391 cardiovascular disease providers in Missouri.

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