RxDoctor Payments Data

Eli Gelfand, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Boston, MANPI 1659339588

Payments from drug & device makers

$101,564in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 115 payments — averaging $883.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$32K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$23K
  • Beckman Coulter, Inc.$16K
  • Gilead$11K
  • CSL Behring$6K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$4K
  • plus $9K from 10 others
$1,815in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $201.67 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.

  • Novo Nordisk AS$2K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$53,53599%
  • Food & beverage$3801%
  • Education$190%

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

$101,564 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$209,850
Medicare patients
1,863
Services billed
4,031

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
EliquisApixaban448$417,318
ArcalystRilonacept14$327,824
XareltoRivaroxaban139$131,149
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol135$120,403
JardianceEmpagliflozin104$88,531
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab73$66,110
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan53$62,691
MounjaroTirzepatide43$52,532
OzempicSemaglutide34$38,204
TrulicityDulaglutide34$38,119
Praluent PenAlirocumab47$36,043
WegovySemaglutide13$16,686
Metoprolol Succinate511$6,772
Rosuvastatin Calcium305$6,640
Ranolazine ErRanolazine24$5,159

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$23,213$88,531104 claims
NovartisEntresto$71$62,69153 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 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.

Other cardiovascular disease in Boston

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