RxDoctor Payments Data

M Obadah Al Chekakie, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Shawnee Mission, KSNPI 1982853610

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,388 of the $15,884 with a category attached, or 71.7%. 39 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 28.9% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in KS, where the typical reported total is $20,088.

$15,884in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 553 payments — averaging $28.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$5K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$3K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Abbott$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$642
  • Amgen$593
  • plus $3K from 33 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$3,54122%
  • Food & beverage$11,38872%
  • Education$9546%

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

$15,884 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 37 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Kansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$631,756
Medicare patients
1,365
Services billed
7,994

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
EliquisApixaban1,361$1,525,519
XareltoRivaroxaban505$579,042
JardianceEmpagliflozin201$246,897
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan201$241,088
MultaqDronedarone Hcl69$118,275
Dofetilide179$33,263
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab34$26,268
Flecainide Acetate324$16,055
SotalolSotalol Hcl380$8,984
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl292$8,901
Metoprolol Succinate658$8,155
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate21$7,773
Atorvastatin Calcium346$4,406
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate200$4,152
Diltiazem 12hr ErDiltiazem Hcl17$3,852

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$331$1,525,5191,361 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$642$579,042505 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$55$246,897201 claims
NovartisEntresto$287$241,088201 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$207$118,27569 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 40th percentile of 37 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Kansas.

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