RxDoctor Payments Data

Jordan Kunkes, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Hartford, CTNPI 1083058671

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,133in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 100 payments — averaging $21.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$411
  • Amgen$325
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$234
  • Baxter Healthcare$230
  • Novartis$189
  • AstraZeneca$146
  • plus $598 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,80985%
  • Education$1788%
  • Other$1467%

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

$2,133 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 415 cardiovascular disease providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$146,621
Medicare patients
1,005
Services billed
2,089

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
EliquisApixaban303$396,549
XareltoRivaroxaban98$147,244
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab111$104,059
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan18$35,408
JardianceEmpagliflozin24$28,062
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$24,568
BrilintaTicagrelor17$22,867
Praluent PenAlirocumab11$16,103
Nebivolol Hcl84$6,319
Metoprolol Succinate364$5,400
Rosuvastatin Calcium401$5,129
Atorvastatin Calcium555$4,863
Ezetimibe199$4,191
Clonidine16$3,135
Amlodipine Besylate386$2,653

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$58$396,549303 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$411$147,24498 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$146$47,43532 claims
NovartisEntresto$189$35,40818 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$90$28,06224 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 55th percentile of 415 cardiovascular disease providers in Connecticut.

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