RxDoctor Payments Data

Jonathan Davis, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1538303276

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.3%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AstraZeneca accounts for 69.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,074 and has fallen 71.2% since, to $309 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $7,967.

$2,312in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $110.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Abbott$371
  • Abiomed$110
  • Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$84
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$40
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$30
  • plus $71 from 3 others
$62,709in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $31,354 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.

  • Novartis$63K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,07446%
  • Food & beverage$1,20852%
  • Education$301%

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

$2,312 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 26 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$66,292
Medicare patients
2,000
Services billed
3,091

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan319$302,549
JardianceEmpagliflozin328$273,853
EliquisApixaban109$94,703
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol83$72,608
XareltoRivaroxaban78$65,542
OzempicSemaglutide26$32,339
VerquvoVericiguat28$21,141
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol28$14,160
Metoprolol Succinate345$5,719
Bumetanide65$2,739
Atorvastatin Calcium344$2,315
Spironolactone331$1,626
Eplerenone22$1,560
PaceroneAmiodarone Hcl11$1,335
Ezetimibe27$733

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$30$273,853328 claims
PfizerEliquis$19$94,703109 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,605$72,60883 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 20th percentile of 26 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Missouri.

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