RxDoctor Payments Data

Eric Hong, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · la Jolla, CANPI 1013162452

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,971in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 604 payments — averaging $26.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$1K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • Amgen$955
  • Cvrx, Inc.$933
  • Abbott$881
  • Pfizer$866
  • plus $10K from 45 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$15,958100%
  • Education$120%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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

$15,971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$965,997
Medicare patients
2,148
Services billed
10,433

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
EliquisApixaban342$445,853
JardianceEmpagliflozin46$75,078
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan39$42,608
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl51$42,459
BrilintaTicagrelor32$37,992
OzempicSemaglutide11$26,134
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe21$22,003
XareltoRivaroxaban13$20,945
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol11$17,065
Praluent PenAlirocumab29$17,010
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab11$9,528
Icosapent Ethyl35$9,464
MultaqDronedarone Hcl12$9,014
Ezetimibe273$8,723
Rosuvastatin Calcium277$4,795

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
PfizerEliquis$866$445,853342 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$160$75,07846 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$629$55,05743 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,463$42,60839 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$307$26,13411 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet$658$22,00321 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$836$20,94513 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$463$9,01412 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 75th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in la Jolla

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