RxDoctor Payments Data

Jeffrey Rubinstein

Interventional Cardiology · Lakewood, CONPI 1417953399

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.9%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. at 38.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $8,019 and has fallen 88.5% since, to $921 in 2025.

$22,179in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 269 payments — averaging $82.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$9K
  • Abbott$3K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$2K
  • Boston Scientific$2K
  • Philips North America LLC$2K
  • plus $2K from 23 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$6,48029%
  • Travel & lodging$3,29515%
  • Food & beverage$12,39556%
  • Education$80%

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

$22,179 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 111 interventional cardiology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$206,633
Medicare patients
916
Services billed
3,417

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
EliquisApixaban294$351,290
XareltoRivaroxaban169$226,288
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab105$104,240
JardianceEmpagliflozin33$57,905
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan25$43,651
Praluent PenAlirocumab26$27,118
MultaqDronedarone Hcl14$19,618
BrilintaTicagrelor18$15,081
Metoprolol Succinate488$5,925
Atorvastatin Calcium516$4,606
Losartan Potassium396$3,985
Rosuvastatin Calcium245$3,107
Prasugrel Hcl23$2,131
Spironolactone-HctzSpironolact/Hydrochlorothiazid38$1,856
Potassium Chloride128$1,832

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$226$351,290294 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$180$226,288169 claims
NovartisEntresto$122$43,65125 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$167$19,61814 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 70th percentile of 111 interventional cardiology providers in Colorado.

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