RxDoctor Payments Data

David Kerbl, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Madison, WINPI 1265969422

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,406in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 155 payments — averaging $41.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$2K
  • Novartis$976
  • Boston Scientific$939
  • Abiomed$674
  • Johnson & Johnson$349
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$293
  • plus $886 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,75190%
  • Education$65510%

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

$6,406 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 322 cardiovascular disease providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$108,066
Medicare patients
1,076
Services billed
1,971

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
EliquisApixaban96$95,269
JardianceEmpagliflozin67$60,018
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan47$39,298
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol33$29,024
XareltoRivaroxaban32$25,839
Metoprolol Succinate125$2,040
Torsemide77$1,681
Atorvastatin Calcium115$854
Amlodipine-ValsartanAmlodipine Besylate/Valsartan13$839
Rosuvastatin Calcium48$723
Ezetimibe29$572
Carvedilol45$518
Spironolactone43$384
Amlodipine Besylate50$381
Amiodarone Hcl22$372

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$21$95,26996 claims
NovartisEntresto$976$39,29847 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$31$29,02433 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$349$25,83932 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 322 cardiovascular disease providers in Wisconsin.

Other cardiovascular disease in Madison

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