RxDoctor Payments Data

Azhar Aslam, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Lexington, KYNPI 1457380156

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,079in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 427 payments — averaging $25.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$2K
  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$815
  • AOP Health US, LLC$767
  • Amgen$760
  • plus $4K from 44 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,31412%
  • Food & beverage$9,74688%
  • Education$180%

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

$11,079 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 129 interventional cardiology providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$219,682
Medicare patients
1,334
Services billed
2,972

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
EliquisApixaban519$513,885
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan187$226,831
XareltoRivaroxaban97$117,136
JardianceEmpagliflozin86$96,903
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab66$56,940
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol43$40,232
BrilintaTicagrelor35$28,738
Praluent PenAlirocumab36$25,701
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab23$17,065
Sildenafil Citrate12$13,247
Ranolazine ErRanolazine84$11,888
Prasugrel Hcl28$5,934
Metoprolol Succinate470$5,622
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate493$3,841
Atorvastatin Calcium439$3,506

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$179$513,885519 claims
NovartisEntresto$223$226,831187 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$815$117,13697 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$89$96,90386 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$636$68,97078 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 129 interventional cardiology providers in Kentucky.

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