RxDoctor Payments Data

Esseim Sharma, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Boston, MANPI 1245610229

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (38.5%), travel and lodging and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 48.8% of the total.

$29,552in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 243 payments — averaging $121.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$14K
  • Abbott$9K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$2K
  • Biotronik Inc.$1K
  • Boston Scientific$809
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$496
  • plus $763 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Grants$7,74826%
  • Travel & lodging$9,59232%
  • Food & beverage$11,38139%
  • Education$6892%
  • Entertainment$1430%

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

$29,552 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 106 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$141,762
Medicare patients
296
Services billed
1,119

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
EliquisApixaban101$63,733
XareltoRivaroxaban13$10,811
Flecainide Acetate90$2,775
Amiodarone Hcl45$892
Metoprolol Succinate45$635
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl18$245
Metoprolol Tartrate21$72
Amlodipine Besylate12$6

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$16$63,733101 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$20$10,81113 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 106 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Massachusetts.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Boston

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