RxDoctor Payments Data

Leon Hirzel, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Miami, FLNPI 1346346459

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,912in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 191 payments — averaging $25.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$2K
  • Medtronic$873
  • Johnson & Johnson$756
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$291
  • AstraZeneca$217
  • Atricure, Inc.$138
  • plus $576 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,86699%
  • Education$461%

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

$4,912 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 623 interventional cardiology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$147,044
Medicare patients
298
Services billed
1,285

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan481$326,699
XareltoRivaroxaban216$119,720
EliquisApixaban137$79,732
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol120$68,190
BrilintaTicagrelor48$28,280
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$9,224
Nifedipine ErNifedipine188$6,796
Labetalol Hcl75$4,860
Midodrine Hcl19$4,235
Ranolazine ErRanolazine40$4,058
Amiodarone Hcl41$2,470
Carvedilol333$1,720
Losartan Potassium389$1,569
Metoprolol Succinate163$1,333
Metoprolol Tartrate184$875

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
NovartisEntresto$51$326,699481 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$756$119,720216 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$217$96,469168 claims
PfizerEliquis$102$79,732137 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 30th percentile of 623 interventional cardiology providers in Florida.

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