RxDoctor Payments Data

Jerry Ginsburg, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Salinas, CANPI 1447212691

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,322in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $37.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$344
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$236
  • Heartflow, Inc.$226
  • Edwards Lifesciences$219
  • Johnson & Johnson$193
  • Novartis$169
  • plus $934 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,23296%
  • Education$904%

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

$2,322 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
$103,786
Medicare patients
950
Services billed
1,709

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
EnbrelEtanercept36$273,177
EliquisApixaban79$105,240
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept11$78,572
XareltoRivaroxaban35$46,959
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan30$38,574
OtezlaApremilast11$32,610
JardianceEmpagliflozin34$32,027
Rosuvastatin Calcium265$5,588
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium86$2,546
EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil11$2,545
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate66$2,512
Atorvastatin Calcium145$1,806
Ezetimibe43$1,610
Metoprolol Succinate90$1,577
Prednisone96$1,534

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
AmgenEnbrel, Otezla$73$305,78747 claims
PfizerEliquis$344$105,24079 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$193$46,95935 claims
NovartisEntresto$169$38,57430 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$167$32,02734 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 Salinas

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