RxDoctor Payments Data

Boruch Zucker, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Skokie, ILNPI 1255471140

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (44.6%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 55.5% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,130, more than ten times the $164 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $24,482.

$3,505in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 47 payments — averaging $74.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$2K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$214
  • Novo Nordisk$61
  • Novartis$47
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$40
  • plus $103 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$47514%
  • Travel & lodging$1,56545%
  • Food & beverage$1,46542%

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

$3,505 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$356,428
Medicare patients
4,035
Services billed
6,998

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
EliquisApixaban836$842,596
JardianceEmpagliflozin259$225,187
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan201$178,979
XareltoRivaroxaban125$152,445
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol131$98,624
MultaqDronedarone Hcl66$91,718
MounjaroTirzepatide12$12,713
Praluent PenAlirocumab17$8,335
Metoprolol Succinate471$7,557
Ranolazine ErRanolazine82$6,573
Atorvastatin Calcium385$4,265
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium11$3,657
Carvedilol370$3,311
Rosuvastatin Calcium205$3,289
Spironolactone329$2,878

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$39$842,596836 claims
NovartisEntresto$47$178,979201 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$214$152,445125 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$17$98,624131 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 15th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.

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