Avrum Jacobs, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Mayfield Hts, OHNPI 1255465852
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 58 payments — averaging $45.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$316
- Novo Nordisk$74
- Novartis$71
- Boehringer Ingelheim$70
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$65
- plus $117 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,86871%
- Food & beverage$76629%
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 9 | $1,922 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 27 | $316 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $74 |
| Novartis | 4 | $71 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $70 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $65 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $31 |
| EKOS Corporation | 2 | $24 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Amgen | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
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.
- MitraClip$1,843
How this compares
$2,635 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VyndamaxTafamidis | 14 | $313,667 |
| EliquisApixaban | 162 | $167,019 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 71 | $80,129 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 64 | $62,365 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 47 | $53,224 |
| Ezetimibe | 133 | $5,998 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 203 | $3,118 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 172 | $2,336 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 182 | $2,168 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 40 | $2,010 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 22 | $1,844 |
| Losartan Potassium | 116 | $1,268 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 38 | $944 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 26 | $772 |
| Spironolactone | 58 | $619 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $70 | $80,12971 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $19 | $62,36564 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 55th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.
Other cardiovascular disease in Mayfield Hts
- Samir KapadiaCleveland$11.1M
- Steven NissenCleveland$5.3M
- Milind DesaiCleveland$5M
- Abraham LincoffCleveland$3.6M
- Carlos HubbardCleveland$3.1M
- Guilherme AttizzaniCleveland$2.8M
- Wai Hong TangCleveland$2.2M
- Bhola RamaMarion$2.1M
- Mazen HannaCleveland$1.6M
- Akber MohammedSpringfield$1.6M
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.