RxDoctor Payments Data

Joseph Saporito, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Texarkana, TXNPI 1316923329

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,909in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 160 payments — averaging $18.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$634
  • Abbott$576
  • Novartis$488
  • Johnson & Johnson$283
  • Pfizer$222
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$220
  • plus $486 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$30210%
  • Food & beverage$2,58589%
  • Education$221%

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

$2,909 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$206,342
Medicare patients
1,426
Services billed
3,870

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
EliquisApixaban254$224,224
XareltoRivaroxaban47$45,173
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan45$42,176
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab23$20,750
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab16$8,346
Metoprolol Succinate241$3,105
Ranolazine ErRanolazine23$2,674
Potassium Chloride145$2,397
Atorvastatin Calcium217$1,806
Rosuvastatin Calcium99$1,595
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate152$1,523
Nifedipine ErNifedipine45$1,380
Carvedilol163$979
Pravastatin Sodium46$781
SotalolSotalol Hcl40$759

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$222$224,224254 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$283$45,17347 claims
NovartisEntresto$488$42,17645 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 40th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

Other cardiovascular disease in Texarkana

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