RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Dunlap, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Cleveland, OHNPI 1255342440

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Novartis accounts for 70.0% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $1,347.

$993in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $141.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$695
  • Edwards Lifesciences$205
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$93
$182,025in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 53 payments — averaging $3434.43 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.

  • Livanova USA, Inc.$117K
  • Novartis$65K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$43544%
  • Food & beverage$55856%

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

20
23

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
Novartis5$695
Edwards Lifesciences1$205
Vifor Pharma, Inc.1$93

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

$993 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$11,263
Medicare patients
71
Services billed
146

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
VyndamaxTafamidis40$890,645
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan250$261,971
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol258$220,716
JardianceEmpagliflozin126$105,222
EliquisApixaban42$45,721
XareltoRivaroxaban30$27,142
BrilintaTicagrelor16$10,889
Metoprolol Succinate465$7,048
Bumetanide106$2,166
Spironolactone342$2,165
Eplerenone26$1,850
Atorvastatin Calcium132$1,295
Torsemide41$899
Carvedilol114$753
Isosorbide Dinitrate12$747

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$695$261,971250 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 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.

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