RxDoctor Payments Data

James Koch, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Shaker Heights, OHNPI 1689649337

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,686in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 103 payments — averaging $26.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$854
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$367
  • Merck$291
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$249
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$215
  • Scpharmaceuticals Inc.$115
  • plus $594 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,686100%

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

$2,686 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$71,319
Medicare patients
487
Services billed
1,102

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
EliquisApixaban206$195,085
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan73$64,625
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab20$19,996
XareltoRivaroxaban22$19,420
Praluent PenAlirocumab21$10,668
Metoprolol Succinate232$2,391
Amiodarone Hcl43$2,292
Rosuvastatin Calcium115$1,495
Flecainide Acetate50$1,150
Atorvastatin Calcium155$1,121
Losartan Potassium106$983
Metoprolol Tartrate115$675
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl34$656
Ezetimibe42$610
Spironolactone93$444

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$19$195,085206 claims
NovartisEntresto$854$64,62573 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$20$19,42022 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 55th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.

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