RxDoctor Payments Data

Cesare Saponieri, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1760436885

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,270in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 204 payments — averaging $25.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$1K
  • Novartis$608
  • Atricure, Inc.$520
  • Abbott$495
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$439
  • Johnson & Johnson$395
  • plus $2K from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$54710%
  • Food & beverage$4,69089%
  • Education$331%

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

$5,270 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 214 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,131,803
Medicare patients
555
Services billed
12,375

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
EliquisApixaban205$194,267
XareltoRivaroxaban67$83,517
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan65$82,094
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab33$28,505
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$17,274
Labetalol Hcl83$2,276
Metoprolol Succinate166$2,077
Atorvastatin Calcium173$1,761
Losartan Potassium140$1,145
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate87$1,073
Amiodarone Hcl24$1,038
Carvedilol120$854
Digoxin36$807
Valsartan17$791
Telmisartan16$731

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$141$194,267205 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$395$83,51767 claims
NovartisEntresto$608$82,09465 claims
MerckJanuvia$386$17,27413 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 20th percentile of 214 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in New York.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Brooklyn

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