RxDoctor Payments Data

David Zhang, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Tacoma, WANPI 1922274968

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $25,513 of the $35,227 with a category attached, or 72.4%. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. accounts for 84.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $31,868, more than ten times the $472 reported in 2019.

$35,227in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 102 payments — averaging $345.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$30K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Abiomed$745
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$372
  • Boston Scientific$355
  • plus $1K from 14 others
$962,009in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 90 payments — averaging $10,689 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.

  • Medtronic$928K
  • Cvrx, Inc.$33K
  • American Regent$233

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,1493%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$25,51372%
  • Travel & lodging$4,08512%
  • Food & beverage$4,48213%

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

$35,227 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 20 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$223,424
Medicare patients
741
Services billed
2,366

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
VyndamaxTafamidis73$1,986,160
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan674$717,806
JardianceEmpagliflozin244$278,061
EliquisApixaban207$216,090
XareltoRivaroxaban118$141,889
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol120$119,707
OzempicSemaglutide84$91,736
Ambrisentan34$58,064
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab26$32,614
Torsemide260$5,943
Eplerenone51$4,660
Metoprolol Succinate392$4,650
Atorvastatin Calcium340$3,838
Sildenafil Citrate49$3,590
Spironolactone497$3,561

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, Eliquis$220$2,202,250280 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$121$141,889118 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$22$119,707120 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$40$91,73684 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 85th percentile of 20 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Washington.

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