RxDoctor Payments Data

Ghassan Chehade, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Newark, NJNPI 1093717431

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,029in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 161 payments — averaging $37.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$3K
  • Novartis$466
  • AstraZeneca$376
  • Amgen$367
  • Abiomed$350
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$258
  • plus $1K from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,98633%
  • Food & beverage$3,92765%
  • Education$1162%

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.

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

$6,029 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$213,463
Medicare patients
712
Services billed
2,440

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
EliquisApixaban136$110,605
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan71$94,345
BrilintaTicagrelor77$47,973
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol41$44,127
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab46$34,735
Repatha PushtronexEvolocumab31$23,852
XareltoRivaroxaban19$17,070
MultaqDronedarone Hcl12$16,827
Clonidine34$6,810
Metoprolol Succinate341$6,286
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate176$2,331
Atorvastatin Calcium250$2,298
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl76$2,088
Ezetimibe72$1,904
Losartan Potassium156$1,522

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$143$110,605136 claims
NovartisEntresto$466$94,34571 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$376$92,101118 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$256$17,07019 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 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.

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