RxDoctor Payments Data

Mariano Battaglia, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Cookeville, TNNPI 1376588913

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,595in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 115 payments — averaging $13.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$328
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$317
  • Johnson & Johnson$127
  • Abiomed$120
  • Amgen$106
  • Pfizer$103
  • plus $495 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,595100%

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

$1,595 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$232,195
Medicare patients
2,322
Services billed
5,265

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
EliquisApixaban366$443,897
XareltoRivaroxaban145$161,791
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab125$117,034
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan60$71,080
JardianceEmpagliflozin63$46,266
BrilintaTicagrelor17$21,896
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol25$14,717
Metoprolol Succinate491$9,044
Praluent PenAlirocumab11$8,094
Ranolazine ErRanolazine32$7,581
Atorvastatin Calcium438$5,249
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate18$4,452
Metoprolol Tartrate520$4,306
NexletolBempedoic Acid11$4,267
Rosuvastatin Calcium219$3,583

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$103$443,897366 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$127$161,791145 claims
NovartisEntresto$328$71,08060 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$13$36,61342 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 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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