RxDoctor Payments Data

John Pensock, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1396729638

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,687in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 94 payments — averaging $17.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$521
  • Amgen$231
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$193
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$185
  • Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$102
  • Abbott$74
  • plus $381 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,687100%

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.

How this compares

$1,687 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 96 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$85,651
Medicare patients
569
Services billed
1,051

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
EliquisApixaban368$399,158
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan140$180,657
JardianceEmpagliflozin75$86,171
XareltoRivaroxaban52$57,574
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab57$54,527
BrilintaTicagrelor17$12,271
Carvedilol439$5,158
Rosuvastatin Calcium279$4,357
Atorvastatin Calcium307$4,024
Metoprolol Succinate222$3,583
Losartan Potassium268$3,161
Dofetilide18$3,117
Lisinopril203$2,200
Amlodipine Besylate237$1,834
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate146$1,749

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$17$399,158368 claims
NovartisEntresto$521$180,657140 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$69$86,17175 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$29$57,57452 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$17$12,27117 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 15th percentile of 96 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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