Bruce Zinsmeister, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Silver Spring, MDNPI 1417950155
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 323 payments — averaging $25.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Novartis$872
- Amgen$841
- Johnson & Johnson$498
- AstraZeneca$472
- Merck$416
- plus $3K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,16114%
- Food & beverage$6,98586%
- Education$190%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $1,879 |
| Novartis | 42 | $872 |
| Amgen | 43 | $841 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $498 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 25 | $472 |
| Merck | 19 | $416 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $303 |
| Abbott | 3 | $237 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $223 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $221 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 15 | $221 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $215 |
| Bayer | 16 | $187 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $167 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $156 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 8 | $145 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $120 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 6 | $117 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $112 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $103 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $99 |
| Amryt Pharma Holdings Ltd | 4 | $71 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $51 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $41 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 2 | $37 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| GSK | 2 | $31 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $24 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $17 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
| Infobionic, Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- AVEIR$192
- Claria MRI$169
How this compares
$8,165 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 507 cardiovascular disease providers in Maryland.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 192 | $287,094 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 96 | $145,957 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 64 | $79,960 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 23 | $42,971 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 14 | $28,334 |
| Repatha SyringeEvolocumab | 18 | $27,818 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 24 | $18,852 |
| NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe | 13 | $10,605 |
| Ezetimibe | 207 | $9,531 |
| Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl | 14 | $9,216 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 424 | $9,086 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 12 | $8,175 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 304 | $7,063 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 375 | $6,730 |
| BystolicNebivolol Hcl | 13 | $5,921 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $303 | $287,094192 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $498 | $145,95796 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $872 | $42,97123 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $167 | $28,33414 claims |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet | $221 | $10,60513 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 75th percentile of 507 cardiovascular disease providers in Maryland.
Other cardiovascular disease in Silver Spring
- Michael LincolnSilver Spring$89K
- Christopher DefilippiBaltimore$9.2M
- Thorsten LeuckerBaltimore$7.1M
- Joao LimaBaltimore$5.6M
- Jeffrey ColeBaltimore$4.8M
- Carlos InceBaltimore$3M
- Paul GurbelBaltimore$2.6M
- Navin KapurBaltimore$1.8M
- Vineet VenugopalLanham$1.5M
- Robert WeissBaltimore$1.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.