RxDoctor Payments Data

Koen Nieman, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Stanford, CANPI 1144778143

Payments from drug & device makers

$345,984in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $8438.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$219K
  • Heartflow, Inc.$92K
  • Cleerly, Inc.$32K
  • Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$3K
  • GE HealthCare$100
$191,388in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $6835.29 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Cleerly, Inc.$186K
  • Novartis$5K
  • Novartis Pharma AG$1K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$26,99958%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$12,35027%
  • Travel & lodging$2,9416%
  • Food & beverage$4,1179%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Novartis12$218,915
Heartflow, Inc.8$92,050
Cleerly, Inc.10$32,212
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.10$2,707
GE HealthCare1$100

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

$345,984 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$148,029
Medicare patients
1,988
Services billed
2,889

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
EliquisApixaban19$27,805
Atorvastatin Calcium48$956
Metoprolol Succinate33$404
Carvedilol18$279
Ezetimibe12$134
Losartan Potassium16$93
Rosuvastatin Calcium11$75
Metoprolol Tartrate13$39

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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