Eric Teplitz, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Palos Heights, ILNPI 1871526343
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 147 payments — averaging $17.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$464
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$322
- AstraZeneca$275
- Pfizer$205
- Novartis$197
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$166
- plus $991 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,54097%
- Education$803%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 40 | $464 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 15 | $322 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $275 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $205 |
| Novartis | 11 | $197 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 11 | $166 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 14 | $154 |
| Amgen | 9 | $152 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 6 | $121 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $112 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $92 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $74 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $64 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $22 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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
$2,619 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 455 | $557,260 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 204 | $263,533 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 83 | $139,410 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 110 | $100,309 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 26 | $36,076 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 23 | $18,483 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 12 | $10,554 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 811 | $9,656 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 488 | $8,956 |
| NexletolBempedoic Acid | 12 | $8,878 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 14 | $7,494 |
| Nebivolol Hcl | 77 | $6,731 |
| Bisoprolol Fumarate | 197 | $6,000 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 402 | $5,885 |
| Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate | 16 | $5,507 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $205 | $557,260455 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $464 | $263,533204 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $197 | $139,41083 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $74 | $36,07626 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $275 | $10,55412 claims |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexletol | $112 | $8,87812 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 55th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.
Other cardiovascular disease in Palos Heights
- Benjamin LumicaoChicago$3.7M
- Paul CremerChicago$2.9M
- Lokesh ChandraHazel Crest$2.7M
- Steven LupovitchArlington Heights$2.6M
- Nitasha SarswatChicago$2M
- Alan BrownNaperville$1.5M
- Alexander AdlerPeoria$1.5M
- Clifford KavinskyMaywood$1.4M
- Sanjiv ShahChicago$1.2M
- Sandeep NathanChicago$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.