RxDoctor Payments Data

David Snipelisky, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Weston, FLNPI 1699069088

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $180,349 of the $250,466 with a category attached, or 72.0%. Pfizer accounts for 68.3% of it on its own, with 29 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in FL 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.

$250,466in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 718 payments — averaging $348.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$171K
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$62K
  • Abbott$7K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$2K
  • Novartis$1K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • plus $5K from 24 others
$135,958in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $33,990 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.

  • AstraZeneca$134K
  • W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$12,1005%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$180,34972%
  • Travel & lodging$37,32515%
  • Food & beverage$20,6438%
  • Education$490%

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

$250,466 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 48 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$170,127
Medicare patients
254
Services billed
1,305

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
VyndamaxTafamidis118$2,726,372
VyndaqelTafamidis Meglumine28$583,418
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan246$279,294
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol111$108,493
EliquisApixaban81$75,282
JardianceEmpagliflozin53$51,242
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab12$10,621
Tacrolimus17$3,605
Milrinone Lactate28$2,901
Torsemide78$2,038
Metoprolol Succinate146$1,614
Spironolactone163$1,163
Atorvastatin Calcium60$876
Dofetilide14$867
Midodrine Hcl17$659

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
PfizerVyndamax, Vyndaqel, Eliquis$171,092$3,385,072227 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,323$279,294246 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,320$108,493111 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$413$51,24253 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 48 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Florida.

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