RxDoctor Payments Data

Carolyn Lacey, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Walnut Creek, CANPI 1295717411

Payments from drug & device makers

$33,465in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 865 payments — averaging $38.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • CSL Behring$13K
  • Biotronik Inc.$6K
  • Abbott$2K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$1K
  • Amgen$973
  • Novartis$941
  • plus $9K from 41 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,40012%
  • Food & beverage$18,10887%
  • Education$3392%

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

$33,465 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$703,326
Medicare patients
2,200
Services billed
9,747

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
EliquisApixaban490$636,684
XareltoRivaroxaban212$280,175
JardianceEmpagliflozin114$139,239
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan101$123,973
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab69$84,695
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol73$84,398
MultaqDronedarone Hcl31$55,848
WegovySemaglutide13$26,035
Praluent PenAlirocumab37$22,373
BrilintaTicagrelor17$11,532
Atorvastatin Calcium627$7,215
Metoprolol Succinate400$6,113
Rosuvastatin Calcium352$5,031
Ezetimibe138$3,962
Ranolazine ErRanolazine46$3,085

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$365$636,684490 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$903$280,175212 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$415$139,239114 claims
NovartisEntresto$941$123,973101 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$422$95,93090 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$247$55,84831 claims
Novo NordiskWegovy$491$26,03513 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 85th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Walnut Creek

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