RxDoctor Payments Data

Jonathan Rich, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Chicago, ILNPI 1467501064

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $219,559 of the $327,464 with a category attached, or 67.0%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boehringer Ingelheim at 42.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $125,229 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $50 in 2025. Among advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$327,464in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 223 payments — averaging $1468.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$139K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$51K
  • Novartis$46K
  • Medtronic$30K
  • Eli Lilly$20K
  • Abbott$19K
  • plus $22K from 4 others
$50,216in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $2789.75 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.

  • Abbott$46K
  • Medtronic$4K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$75,60723%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$219,55967%
  • Travel & lodging$28,3689%
  • Food & beverage$3,9291%

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
Boehringer Ingelheim82$138,650
Lilly USA, LLC28$51,231
Novartis26$46,468
Medtronic(2 entities)20$30,373
Eli Lilly8$19,800
Abbott51$19,075
Amgen3$19,040
Merck1$2,750
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)3$47
Pfizer1$29

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

$327,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 56 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$160,770
Medicare patients
336
Services billed
1,378

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
VyndamaxTafamidis16$340,794
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan181$239,774
OpsumitMacitentan13$163,703
EliquisApixaban71$109,767
JardianceEmpagliflozin79$100,863
Ambrisentan16$34,360
XareltoRivaroxaban19$30,929
Tacrolimus94$9,736
Tadalafil20$6,168
Bumetanide137$5,593
Metoprolol Succinate197$4,287
Sirolimus19$3,213
Eplerenone36$3,185
Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium16$3,064
Carvedilol214$2,561

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$29$450,56287 claims
NovartisEntresto$46,468$239,774181 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$138,650$100,86379 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 95th percentile of 56 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Illinois.

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