RxDoctor Payments Data

Erwin Argueta Sosa, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Lubbock, TXNPI 1629333455

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.2%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 33 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. at 53.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $16,357, 9.9 times the $1,655 reported in 2019.

$31,148in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 263 payments — averaging $118.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$17K
  • Abbott$6K
  • Abiomed$2K
  • AstraZeneca$930
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$841
  • Cvrx, Inc.$815
  • plus $4K from 27 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,97510%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$13,33243%
  • Travel & lodging$9333%
  • Food & beverage$13,77944%
  • Education$1290%

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

$31,148 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 75 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$78,869
Medicare patients
153
Services billed
791

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan108$103,533
JardianceEmpagliflozin55$51,078
EliquisApixaban42$33,987
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$24,023
XareltoRivaroxaban12$13,335
VerquvoVericiguat11$7,520
Torsemide40$1,365
Carvedilol107$719
Spironolactone78$479
Amiodarone Hcl47$399
Potassium Chloride21$397
Digoxin25$304
Atorvastatin Calcium35$226
Warfarin Sodium47$148
Furosemide17$100

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$45$103,533108 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$423$51,07855 claims
PfizerEliquis$209$33,98742 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$930$24,02319 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$43$13,33512 claims
MerckVerquvo$370$7,52011 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 65th percentile of 75 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Texas.

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