RxDoctor Payments Data

Jennifer Springer, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · San Luis Obispo, CANPI 1407122823

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,337in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $36.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$279
  • Edwards Lifesciences$274
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$216
  • Boston Scientific$204
  • Heartflow, Inc.$178
  • Medtronic$149
  • plus $1K from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,337100%

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

$2,337 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$218,118
Medicare patients
1,995
Services billed
3,786

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
EliquisApixaban247$307,089
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan41$59,865
XareltoRivaroxaban39$54,982
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol27$44,372
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab51$36,854
JardianceEmpagliflozin23$27,018
Metoprolol Succinate219$3,219
Atorvastatin Calcium252$2,004
Carvedilol181$1,419
Spironolactone136$1,418
Losartan Potassium145$1,403
Flecainide Acetate23$1,388
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl36$1,095
Lisinopril124$1,084
Potassium Chloride35$1,048

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$24$307,089247 claims
NovartisEntresto$149$59,86541 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$133$54,98239 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 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in San Luis Obispo

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