RxDoctor Payments Data

Benjamin Romer, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Gahanna, OHNPI 1699193896

Payments from drug & device makers

$817in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $17.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$185
  • Cardiva Medical, Inc.$142
  • Pfizer$129
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$85
  • Novartis$81
  • Novo Nordisk$44
  • plus $152 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$817100%

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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25

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.

How this compares

$817 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$173,651
Medicare patients
1,102
Services billed
2,452

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
EliquisApixaban153$164,665
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan88$91,577
JardianceEmpagliflozin85$77,874
XareltoRivaroxaban74$66,425
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab42$34,574
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol51$29,584
Praluent PenAlirocumab11$7,765
Metoprolol Succinate257$3,338
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl45$3,235
Atorvastatin Calcium237$1,854
Ezetimibe68$1,389
Carvedilol199$1,373
Rosuvastatin Calcium123$1,231
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate71$742
Losartan Potassium126$718

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$129$164,665153 claims
NovartisEntresto$81$91,57788 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$38$77,87485 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$33$29,58451 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 35th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.

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