RxDoctor Payments Data

Gordon Watson, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Tucson, AZNPI 1225031131

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,985in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 645 payments — averaging $15.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Boston Scientific$787
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$749
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$670
  • Amgen$562
  • plus $4K from 26 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9,985100%

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

$9,985 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$440,284
Medicare patients
1,095
Services billed
5,803

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
EliquisApixaban684$893,274
XareltoRivaroxaban121$159,863
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan102$149,952
JardianceEmpagliflozin106$107,883
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab81$91,356
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl37$26,642
Praluent PenAlirocumab18$10,630
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab11$7,976
Ezetimibe385$7,392
Metoprolol Succinate576$7,370
Atorvastatin Calcium834$6,942
Amlodipine Besylate1,052$5,657
Lisinopril721$5,045
Losartan Potassium444$3,825
Rosuvastatin Calcium286$3,550

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$517$893,274684 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,160$159,863121 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,677$149,952102 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$749$107,883106 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 70th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.

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