RxDoctor Payments Data

Brooks Gerlinger, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1366449621

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,386in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 201 payments — averaging $16.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$789
  • Johnson & Johnson$640
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$336
  • Amgen$313
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$182
  • Merck$175
  • plus $949 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,386100%

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.

How this compares

$3,386 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$233,199
Medicare patients
2,767
Services billed
5,620

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
EliquisApixaban383$407,196
XareltoRivaroxaban82$95,793
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab62$40,526
JardianceEmpagliflozin30$26,527
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan20$23,523
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol13$8,136
Metoprolol Succinate595$6,010
Ranolazine ErRanolazine32$3,896
Ezetimibe146$3,522
Atorvastatin Calcium351$2,987
Valsartan181$2,953
Midodrine Hcl35$2,609
Amiodarone Hcl106$2,582
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl95$2,090
Torsemide133$1,847

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$139$407,196383 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$640$95,79382 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$336$26,52730 claims
NovartisEntresto$789$23,52320 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$134$8,13613 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 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.

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