RxDoctor Payments Data

Geoffrey Saham, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Rochester Hills, MINPI 1609857598

Payments from drug & device makers

$189in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $63.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Cvrx, Inc.$146
  • AstraZeneca$27
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$16

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$189100%

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

20
21
25

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
Cvrx, Inc.1$146
AstraZeneca1$27
Astellas Pharma US Inc1$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

$189 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 760 cardiovascular disease providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$374,714
Medicare patients
1,265
Services billed
4,371

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
EliquisApixaban185$242,049
XareltoRivaroxaban131$146,384
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab27$34,127
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$25,935
JardianceEmpagliflozin16$21,562
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan17$17,404
BrilintaTicagrelor13$7,747
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl13$5,536
Atorvastatin Calcium377$5,052
Losartan Potassium285$4,106
Metoprolol Succinate149$3,924
Propafenone Hcl23$2,624
Rosuvastatin Calcium141$2,278
Amiodarone Hcl38$1,761
Flecainide Acetate37$1,624

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$27$33,68232 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 10th percentile of 760 cardiovascular disease providers in Michigan.

Other cardiovascular disease in Rochester Hills

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