RxDoctor Payments Data

David Morrow, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Boston, MANPI 1316928039

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (54.5%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Roche Diagnostics International Ltd at 44.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $36,647 and has fallen 92.6% since, to $2,717 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$111,541in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 78 payments — averaging $1430.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Roche Diagnostics International Ltd$50K
  • Merck$23K
  • Roche Diagnostics Corporation$16K
  • Novartis$11K
  • Abbott$9K
  • Regeneron$3K
  • plus $48 from 3 others
$18,887,302in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 99 payments — averaging $190,781 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Abbott$7.3M
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$3.7M
  • Pfizer$3.3M
  • Roche Diagnostics Corporation$3M
  • Amgen$657K
  • AstraZeneca$396K
  • plus $473K from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$60,79155%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$14,17113%
  • Travel & lodging$34,52831%
  • Food & beverage$2,0522%

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

$111,541 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$54,727
Medicare patients
1,054
Services billed
1,502

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin56$82,556
EliquisApixaban42$48,588
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan24$30,595
XareltoRivaroxaban18$28,999
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab14$21,725
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe20$14,188
Ezetimibe77$3,998
Atorvastatin Calcium202$2,835
Rosuvastatin Calcium51$2,109
Metoprolol Succinate93$2,072
Valsartan13$571
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate29$351
Lisinopril47$313
Torsemide17$287
Potassium Chloride12$280

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
NovartisEntresto$10,563$30,59524 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 90th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.

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