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Gregory Ewald, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1073557401

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $25,598 of the $34,891 with a category attached, or 73.4%. Abbott accounts for 80.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $20,709 and has fallen 74.0% since, to $5,374 in 2025.

$34,891in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 122 payments — averaging $285.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$28K
  • Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$5K
  • Abiomed$872
  • Medtronic$307
  • Cvrx, Inc.$183
  • Novartis$151
  • plus $362 from 5 others
$627,640in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 101 payments — averaging $6214.26 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.

  • Eli Lilly$233K
  • Merck$95K
  • Cvrx, Inc.$90K
  • Array Biopharma Inc$73K
  • Boston Scientific$67K
  • Novartis$65K
  • plus $4K from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$25,59873%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,1639%
  • Travel & lodging$1,1253%
  • Food & beverage$4,96914%
  • Education$380%

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

$34,891 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 26 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$86,538
Medicare patients
380
Services billed
847

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan565$571,530
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol256$214,474
EliquisApixaban175$181,881
JardianceEmpagliflozin126$114,696
XareltoRivaroxaban33$40,551
Tacrolimus109$12,934
Potassium Chloride161$7,155
Mycophenolate Mofetil93$6,495
Metoprolol Succinate455$5,530
Eplerenone94$5,098
Torsemide170$4,998
Bumetanide75$4,730
Sildenafil Citrate24$4,572
Spironolactone622$4,035
Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified24$3,323

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$151$571,530565 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$119$214,474256 claims
PfizerEliquis$12$181,881175 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$91$114,696126 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 80th percentile of 26 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Missouri.

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