RxDoctor Payments Data

Kenneth Rice, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Brookline, MANPI 1144291741

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,327in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 263 payments — averaging $20.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$841
  • Novartis$570
  • AstraZeneca$497
  • Merck$467
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$456
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$422
  • plus $2K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,16897%
  • Education$1593%

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

$5,327 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,804
Medicare patients
52
Services billed
130

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
EliquisApixaban223$301,846
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab252$299,963
MounjaroTirzepatide95$104,001
JardianceEmpagliflozin56$78,089
Praluent PenAlirocumab84$78,068
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe81$65,253
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan38$60,885
VerquvoVericiguat31$56,312
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl77$53,685
XareltoRivaroxaban30$47,367
Icosapent Ethyl35$14,060
NexletolBempedoic Acid11$9,479
Eplerenone154$9,286
Rosuvastatin Calcium294$8,336
Ezetimibe104$6,583

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$344$301,846223 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$269$78,08956 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet, Nexletol$456$74,73292 claims
NovartisEntresto$570$60,88538 claims
MerckVerquvo$467$56,31231 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$137$47,36730 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 60th percentile of 750 cardiovascular disease providers in Massachusetts.

Other cardiovascular disease in Brookline

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