RxDoctor Payments Data

Justin Cox, MD

Interventional Cardiology · San Diego, CANPI 1821144718

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 96.0% of it on its own, with 40 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $97,376 and has fallen 95.0% since, to $4,916 in 2025. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in CA 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.

$291,499in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 477 payments — averaging $611.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Edwards Lifesciences$280K
  • Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$2K
  • Abbott$2K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$1K
  • Abiomed$960
  • plus $5K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$174,37060%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$63,65622%
  • Travel & lodging$40,92214%
  • Food & beverage$12,5524%

General payments by program year

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25

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

$291,499 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$314,491
Medicare patients
1,119
Services billed
2,920

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
EliquisApixaban68$87,934
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan21$31,588
BrilintaTicagrelor31$21,742
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab21$19,616
Rosuvastatin Calcium78$2,203
Atorvastatin Calcium133$1,988
Clonidine13$1,309
Metoprolol Succinate58$1,064
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate75$867
Carvedilol58$778
Losartan Potassium54$598
Spironolactone57$519
Amlodipine Besylate51$457
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate29$454
Amiodarone Hcl20$439

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$43$87,93468 claims
NovartisEntresto$19$31,58821 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$51$21,74231 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 585 interventional cardiology providers in California.

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