RxDoctor Payments Data

Konstantinos Vlachonassios, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Lakewood, CANPI 1851473003

Payments from drug & device makers

$42,530in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,133 payments — averaging $37.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$10K
  • AstraZeneca$4K
  • Medtronic$4K
  • Abiomed$3K
  • Biotronik Inc.$2K
  • Abbott$2K
  • plus $18K from 43 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$11,60027%
  • Travel & lodging$4,0329%
  • Food & beverage$26,14261%
  • Education$7562%

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

$42,530 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$176,733
Medicare patients
399
Services billed
1,576

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
OpsumitMacitentan29$388,123
VyndamaxTafamidis13$337,193
EliquisApixaban247$264,415
JardianceEmpagliflozin235$240,589
OzempicSemaglutide155$181,629
XareltoRivaroxaban174$164,979
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan151$142,834
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol163$138,706
Repatha PushtronexEvolocumab150$114,864
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab103$71,147
KerendiaFinerenone73$68,808
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl90$57,415
VerquvoVericiguat44$43,898
RybelsusSemaglutide23$40,869
Ambrisentan12$34,818

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
PfizerVyndamax, Eliquis$418$601,607260 claims
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Opsumit$246$388,12329 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$1,259$240,589235 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$339$222,498178 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,503$164,979174 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,677$142,834151 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$4,241$138,706163 claims
BayerKerendia$1,238$68,80873 claims
MerckVerquvo, Januvia$924$66,66959 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$228$31,21630 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$117$17,29824 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi, Edarbyclor$31$13,67531 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 85th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Lakewood

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