RxDoctor Payments Data

Jessica Saunders, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Albany, NYNPI 1861502429

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,139in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 177 payments — averaging $17.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$613
  • Pfizer$421
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$382
  • Merck$258
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$242
  • Baxter Healthcare$179
  • plus $1K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,125100%
  • Education$140%

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

$3,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$87,895
Medicare patients
756
Services billed
2,189

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
EliquisApixaban320$453,712
VyndamaxTafamidis13$425,430
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab87$116,229
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan69$100,834
JardianceEmpagliflozin65$82,271
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol56$65,719
XareltoRivaroxaban16$23,152
Metoprolol Succinate651$11,314
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe16$10,177
Ranolazine ErRanolazine73$9,238
Atorvastatin Calcium758$8,344
Verapamil SrVerapamil Hcl21$4,031
Ezetimibe175$3,553
Potassium Chloride32$3,424
Rosuvastatin Calcium197$3,140

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, Vyndamax$421$879,142333 claims
NovartisEntresto$613$100,83469 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$382$82,27165 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$178$65,71956 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$62$23,15216 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 60th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

Other cardiovascular disease in Albany

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