RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Ostromecki, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Benton, ILNPI 1497746390

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,724in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $24.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$272
  • Abbott$261
  • Merck$211
  • Pfizer$180
  • Bayer$165
  • Novartis$104
  • plus $532 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,724100%

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

$1,724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$38,564
Medicare patients
379
Services billed
673

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
EliquisApixaban76$74,100
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan15$10,023
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$7,106
BrilintaTicagrelor12$5,310
Metoprolol Succinate83$1,352
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate123$1,263
Amiodarone Hcl26$886
Atorvastatin Calcium94$693
Digoxin16$412
SotalolSotalol Hcl32$364
Carvedilol50$296
Furosemide43$280
Lisinopril64$275
Potassium Chloride14$273
Rosuvastatin Calcium21$227

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$180$74,10076 claims
NovartisEntresto$104$10,02315 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$70$7,10612 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$15$5,31012 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 45th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.

Other cardiovascular disease in Benton

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