RxDoctor Payments Data

Elias Haddad, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Nashville, TNNPI 1235172164

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (37.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Teleflex LLC at 44.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $10,310 and has fallen 70.9% since, to $3,003 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in TN 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.

$30,946in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 142 payments — averaging $217.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Teleflex LLC$14K
  • Boston Scientific$5K
  • Abiomed$3K
  • Penumbra, Inc.$3K
  • Inari Medical, Inc.$1K
  • Abbott$896
  • plus $3K from 17 others
$44,624in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $5577.94 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$45K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,8756%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$11,60037%
  • Travel & lodging$5,95119%
  • Food & beverage$11,52037%

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

$30,946 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$195,511
Medicare patients
621
Services billed
1,974

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
EliquisApixaban187$171,529
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab103$78,888
XareltoRivaroxaban68$58,200
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan43$56,062
Praluent PenAlirocumab39$21,073
BrilintaTicagrelor28$17,711
JardianceEmpagliflozin14$16,679
Ranolazine ErRanolazine49$6,668
Metoprolol Succinate237$3,323
Atorvastatin Calcium245$3,184
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate222$3,012
Potassium Chloride163$2,333
Diltiazem 12hr ErDiltiazem Hcl17$2,297
Prasugrel Hcl32$2,222
Rosuvastatin Calcium107$1,923

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$14$56,06243 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$357$17,71128 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$27$16,67914 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 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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