Asad Sawar, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Tampa, FLNPI 1538168265
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 635 payments — averaging $32.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$4K
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Novartis$825
- Cvrx, Inc.$806
- Medtronic$755
- plus $10K from 54 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,50019%
- Travel & lodging$2952%
- Food & beverage$14,18278%
- Education$1981%
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
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.
- FARXIGA$3,616
- Indigo$936
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$535
- Indigo System$522
- Barostim Neo System$510
- OPTIMIZER$504
- Zilver PTX$253
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$192
- VenaSeal$174
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$169
- Peripheral Orbital Atherectomy System$146
- AMVUTTRA$128
- Impella$127
- Cook Medical Zilver PTX$119
- ClosureFast$112
- XARELTO$111
How this compares
$20,451 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 1,144 | $1,232,869 |
| AdempasRiociguat | 25 | $339,678 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 176 | $203,210 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 148 | $164,035 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 135 | $117,010 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 77 | $109,796 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 69 | $80,974 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 81 | $78,973 |
| Repatha SyringeEvolocumab | 20 | $20,163 |
| Dofetilide | 75 | $16,695 |
| VerquvoVericiguat | 17 | $15,268 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 11 | $15,252 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 12 | $12,766 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 926 | $11,976 |
| Clonidine | 94 | $11,814 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $725 | $1,232,8691,144 claims |
| BayerAdempas | $386 | $339,67825 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $341 | $203,210176 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $825 | $164,035148 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $4,292 | $117,010135 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $451 | $109,79677 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $368 | $80,97469 claims |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet, Nexletol | $85 | $19,09635 claims |
| MerckVerquvo | $362 | $15,26817 claims |
| AmgenCorlanor | $126 | $7,60113 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 80th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.
Other cardiovascular disease in Tampa
- Hiram BezerraTampa$1.6M
- Arthur LabovitzTampa$689K
- Michael KorenGainesville$31M
- Seth BaumBoca Raton$11.1M
- Alexis GutierrezHialeah$8M
- Eric SpivackAventura$7.1M
- William OneillNaples$4.6M
- Rafik AbadierInverness$4.4M
- Alvaro MurciaPembroke Pines$4M
- David HotchkissPort Charlotte$4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.