RxDoctor Payments Data

John Boehmer, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Hershey, PANPI 1053369645

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $54,850 of the $89,063 with a category attached, or 61.6%. Boston Scientific accounts for 65.2% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $45,151 and has fallen 75.1% since, to $11,245 in 2025.

$89,063in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 136 payments — averaging $654.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$58K
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$15K
  • Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$7K
  • ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.$3K
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$2K
  • Pfizer$2K
  • plus $2K from 12 others
$979,216in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 270 payments — averaging $3626.73 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$295K
  • Boston Scientific$156K
  • Endotronix, Inc.$138K
  • Abbott$138K
  • ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.$83K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$58K
  • plus $111K from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$19,07521%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$54,85062%
  • Travel & lodging$10,88712%
  • Food & beverage$4,2315%
  • Education$200%

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

$89,063 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 96 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$18,874
Medicare patients
109
Services billed
255

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
VyndamaxTafamidis17$348,035
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan156$200,749
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol86$88,769
EliquisApixaban58$52,433
JardianceEmpagliflozin30$26,759
Tacrolimus12$3,750
Metoprolol Succinate116$3,087
Sirolimus11$2,813
Warfarin Sodium211$2,802
Bumetanide73$2,768
Mycophenolate Mofetil16$2,620
Amiodarone Hcl89$1,381
Carvedilol135$1,364
Dofetilide12$1,237
Eplerenone22$1,142

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
PfizerVyndamax, Eliquis$1,756$400,46975 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 85th percentile of 96 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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