RxDoctor Payments Data

Jasmin Sahbaz, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Columbia, MDNPI 1083009666

Payments from drug & device makers

$61in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $30.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$40
  • Getinge USA Sales, LLC$21

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$61100%

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

21
23

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Novartis1$40
Getinge USA Sales, LLC1$21

How this compares

$61 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 507 cardiovascular disease providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$512,567
Medicare patients
2,654
Services billed
5,876

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
EliquisApixaban264$371,776
JardianceEmpagliflozin139$230,880
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan69$106,638
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab61$78,089
XareltoRivaroxaban50$70,561
Praluent PenAlirocumab28$23,176
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl24$14,947
Metoprolol Succinate546$11,207
Atorvastatin Calcium487$7,881
Rosuvastatin Calcium254$6,449
Ezetimibe121$5,545
Amiodarone Hcl90$2,926
Losartan Potassium220$2,638
Amlodipine Besylate282$2,226
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate124$2,156

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$40$106,63869 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 10th percentile of 507 cardiovascular disease providers in Maryland.

Other cardiovascular disease in Columbia

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