RxDoctor Payments Data

Fraidon Azizi, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Thousand Oaks, CANPI 1841368461

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,860in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $33.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$974
  • Biotronik Inc.$511
  • Boston Scientific$199
  • Novartis$51
  • Novo Nordisk$32
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$31
  • plus $62 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,82898%
  • Education$322%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Medtronic(2 entities)32$974
Biotronik Inc.12$511
Boston Scientific3$199
Novartis3$51
Novo Nordisk1$32
Biosense Webster, Inc.1$31
Abbott1$24
AstraZeneca1$22
Cvrx, Inc.1$16

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

$1,860 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$239,414
Medicare patients
566
Services billed
1,885

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
EliquisApixaban225$258,800
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan74$89,991
XareltoRivaroxaban73$87,380
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$24,604
OzempicSemaglutide17$16,172
EdarbyclorAzilsartan Med/Chlorthalidone16$5,582
Flecainide Acetate76$5,090
Amlodipine Besylate295$2,807
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium32$2,484
Olmesartan-HydrochlorothiazideOlmesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide51$2,362
Rosuvastatin Calcium180$2,301
Amiodarone Hcl49$1,837
Metoprolol Succinate130$1,564
Digoxin41$1,464
Carvedilol156$1,408

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$51$89,99174 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$32$16,17217 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 45th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Thousand Oaks

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