RxDoctor Payments Data

Fadi Saab, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1528028412

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.8%), speaking fees and other — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 44 manufacturers reported payments, led by Philips North America LLC at 36.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $103,516 and has fallen 77.3% since, to $23,457 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$344,629in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 528 payments — averaging $652.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Philips North America LLC$126K
  • Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$58K
  • Terumo Medical Corporation$45K
  • Angiodynamics, Inc.$33K
  • Medtronic$31K
  • Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$11K
  • plus $41K from 38 others
$85,751in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $1242.76 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.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$53K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg$32K
  • Medtronic$1K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$150,97544%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$139,44440%
  • Travel & lodging$8,5422%
  • Food & beverage$12,6134%
  • Other$33,05410%

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

$344,629 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 760 cardiovascular disease providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$634,004
Medicare patients
507
Services billed
1,876

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
XareltoRivaroxaban152$132,946
EliquisApixaban36$44,331
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan18$17,542
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab14$14,820
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab16$11,500
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol11$10,174
Metoprolol Succinate60$1,350
Atorvastatin Calcium84$1,332
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate89$1,327
Ezetimibe26$673
Rosuvastatin Calcium33$653
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate33$554
Potassium Chloride15$542
Losartan Potassium25$336
Amlodipine Besylate39$285

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$96$132,946152 claims
PfizerEliquis$186$44,33136 claims
NovartisEntresto$89$17,54218 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 95th percentile of 760 cardiovascular disease providers in Michigan.

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