RxDoctor Payments Data

Bernard Villegas, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1700862885

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,317in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 264 payments — averaging $16.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$997
  • Boston Scientific$546
  • Johnson & Johnson$404
  • Amgen$296
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$267
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$218
  • plus $2K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$110%
  • Food & beverage$4,29399%
  • 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

$4,317 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$34,133
Medicare patients
671
Services billed
1,091

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
EliquisApixaban98$113,979
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan31$28,416
XareltoRivaroxaban20$22,925
Dofetilide14$4,995
Rosuvastatin Calcium159$2,760
Nebivolol Hcl25$2,643
Ezetimibe51$1,616
Metoprolol Succinate89$1,538
Bumetanide12$894
Amlodipine Besylate117$856
Atorvastatin Calcium93$853
Losartan Potassium70$646
Flecainide Acetate16$639
Carvedilol38$485
Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide11$475

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$170$113,97998 claims
NovartisEntresto$997$28,41631 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$404$22,92520 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 60th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.

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