RxDoctor Payments Data

Ashim Aggarwal, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Sun City West, AZNPI 1558553016

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.8%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 66.0% of it on its own, with 40 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $16,721 and has fallen 80.9% since, to $3,188 in 2025.

$47,198in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 637 payments — averaging $74.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$31K
  • Boston Scientific$5K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Novartis$931
  • plus $5K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$14,01330%
  • Travel & lodging$7,29915%
  • Food & beverage$25,87355%
  • Education$140%

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

$47,198 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 223 interventional cardiology providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,220,507
Medicare patients
1,370
Services billed
9,587

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
EliquisApixaban289$407,960
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol83$114,284
JardianceEmpagliflozin48$65,181
BrilintaTicagrelor67$63,091
XareltoRivaroxaban41$61,475
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan30$55,662
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab34$35,899
MultaqDronedarone Hcl15$32,179
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl12$12,450
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl142$4,220
Metoprolol Succinate272$4,103
Carvedilol416$4,090
Ezetimibe102$4,048
Bumetanide148$3,741
Flecainide Acetate67$3,733

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$194$407,960289 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$400$177,375150 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$463$65,18148 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$109$61,47541 claims
NovartisEntresto$931$55,66230 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$165$32,17915 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 85th percentile of 223 interventional cardiology providers in Arizona.

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