RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Kirshenbaum, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Boston, MANPI 1164714697

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,584in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 160 payments — averaging $72.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Cardiologs Technologies$8K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$404
  • Pfizer$399
  • Johnson & Johnson$292
  • Merck$262
  • AstraZeneca$241
  • plus $2K from 30 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8,13370%
  • Food & beverage$3,45130%

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

$11,584 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$305,153
Medicare patients
1,349
Services billed
3,751

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
EliquisApixaban333$436,471
JardianceEmpagliflozin136$185,868
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan78$115,807
WegovySemaglutide80$108,557
XareltoRivaroxaban61$79,499
OzempicSemaglutide30$48,055
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab37$33,501
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol23$26,849
Praluent PenAlirocumab17$16,113
BrilintaTicagrelor11$14,562
NexletolBempedoic Acid11$13,028
Metoprolol Succinate514$11,294
Rosuvastatin Calcium246$7,424
Ezetimibe146$6,591
Atorvastatin Calcium312$5,599

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$399$436,471333 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$48$185,868136 claims
Novo NordiskWegovy, Ozempic$169$156,612110 claims
NovartisEntresto$129$115,80778 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$292$79,49961 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$241$41,41234 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexletol$49$13,02811 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 70th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.

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