RxDoctor Payments Data

Jaime Gonzalez, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1245370204

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (36.8%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 53.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,455 and has fallen 64.9% since, to $1,564 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in CO, where the typical reported total is $11,587.

$10,599in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 70 payments — averaging $151.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$6K
  • Boston Scientific$2K
  • Medtronic$891
  • Abiomed$690
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$399
  • ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.$313
  • plus $373 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,27531%
  • Travel & lodging$3,42432%
  • Food & beverage$3,90037%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$10,599 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 66 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$317,376
Medicare patients
1,001
Services billed
3,190

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
EliquisApixaban286$425,978
XareltoRivaroxaban52$76,905
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$21,259
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate11$4,639
Flecainide Acetate94$3,805
PradaxaDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate16$3,774
Metoprolol Succinate237$3,753
Dofetilide28$2,295
Amiodarone Hcl63$2,016
SotalolSotalol Hcl61$1,366
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl25$1,093
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate64$824
Potassium Chloride30$631
Losartan Potassium47$566
Verapamil ErVerapamil Hcl20$540

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$13$21,25912 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 45th percentile of 66 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Colorado.

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