RxDoctor Payments Data

Marwa Sabe, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Boston, MANPI 1942400155

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $11,597 of the $12,005 with a category attached, or 96.6%. Novo Nordisk accounts for 87.6% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$12,005in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $923.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$11K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Abbott$342
  • Abiomed$37
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$30
$409,882in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $14,639 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.

  • American Regent$178K
  • Novartis$140K
  • Endotronix, Inc.$51K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$37K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg$4K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$11,59797%
  • Food & beverage$3333%
  • Education$761%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Novo Nordisk5$10,523
AstraZeneca1$1,074
Abbott5$342
Abiomed1$37
Boehringer Ingelheim1$30

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

$12,005 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 35 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$138,619
Medicare patients
770
Services billed
1,725

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/Valsartan70$88,606
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol27$35,881
EliquisApixaban16$17,223
Torsemide55$2,396
Bumetanide19$1,790
Eplerenone14$954
Valsartan33$675
Metoprolol Succinate36$565
Spironolactone57$476
Losartan Potassium15$244
Carvedilol16$167
Amlodipine Besylate16$151
Furosemide30$117

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,074$35,88127 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 65th percentile of 35 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Massachusetts.

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