RxDoctor Payments Data

Jonathan Passeri, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Boston, MANPI 1477534725

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $23,300 of the $35,933 with a category attached, or 64.8%. Abbott accounts for 61.7% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $20,930 and has fallen 78.2% since, to $4,561 in 2025.

$35,933in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $466.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$22K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$8K
  • Medtronic$6K
  • Philips North America LLC$150
  • Boston Scientific$86
$19,050in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $3175.00 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.

  • Edwards Lifesciences$19K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,72513%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$23,30065%
  • Travel & lodging$5,45315%
  • Food & beverage$2,4557%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Abbott44$22,182
Edwards Lifesciences15$7,671
Medtronic(2 entities)16$5,843
Philips North America LLC1$150
Boston Scientific1$86

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

$35,933 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$265,488
Medicare patients
2,661
Services billed
4,190

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
EliquisApixaban129$187,177
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$29,875
XareltoRivaroxaban23$20,578
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$18,383
Metoprolol Succinate308$5,379
Atorvastatin Calcium255$3,589
Rosuvastatin Calcium44$2,032
Amiodarone Hcl21$1,538
Valsartan38$1,487
Ranolazine ErRanolazine11$1,209
Losartan Potassium44$766
Furosemide123$699
Ezetimibe11$582
Amlodipine Besylate97$518
Lisinopril47$382

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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