RxDoctor Payments Data

Gregg Fonarow, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Los Angeles, CANPI 1750316402

Payments from drug & device makers

$264,187in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 159 payments — averaging $1661.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$130K
  • Merck$44K
  • Bayer$15K
  • Amgen$13K
  • Pfizer$13K
  • AstraZeneca$9K
  • plus $41K from 12 others
$31,141in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $6228.16 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.

  • Novartis$29K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Amgen$291
  • F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$88

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$136,78453%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$114,46644%
  • Grants$2,0001%
  • Travel & lodging$4,4922%
  • Food & beverage$2,0991%

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

$264,187 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$26,394
Medicare patients
1,081
Services billed
1,715

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol74$62,699
EliquisApixaban32$36,305
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan16$32,058
Ezetimibe52$2,516
Eplerenone27$1,846
Carvedilol105$1,282
Atorvastatin Calcium69$1,001
Spironolactone49$385
Digoxin14$270
Losartan Potassium25$237
Furosemide37$185
Lisinopril24$162
Potassium Chloride15$138
Simvastatin17$68

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$8,713$62,69974 claims
PfizerEliquis$13,050$36,30532 claims
NovartisEntresto$129,742$32,05816 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 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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