RxDoctor Payments Data

Kenneth Schwartz, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Derby, CTNPI 1588727549

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,991in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 283 payments — averaging $24.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$1K
  • Novartis$689
  • Pfizer$687
  • Johnson & Johnson$625
  • Merck$591
  • Amgen$436
  • plus $3K from 26 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$93413%
  • Food & beverage$6,05787%

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.

How this compares

$6,991 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 415 cardiovascular disease providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$54,934
Medicare patients
653
Services billed
1,459

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
EliquisApixaban155$238,762
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan31$46,911
XareltoRivaroxaban43$38,409
BrilintaTicagrelor12$16,033
Metoprolol Succinate227$2,760
Rosuvastatin Calcium83$1,920
Atorvastatin Calcium196$1,759
Ezetimibe54$1,020
Losartan Potassium99$845
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl22$772
Metoprolol Tartrate102$707
Furosemide96$533
Torsemide13$491
Amlodipine Besylate93$414
Carvedilol47$375

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$687$238,762155 claims
NovartisEntresto$689$46,91131 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$625$38,40943 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$252$16,03312 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 70th percentile of 415 cardiovascular disease providers in Connecticut.

Other cardiovascular disease in Derby

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