RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Deshazo, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Nashville, TNNPI 1518178441

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $31,962 of the $37,606 with a category attached, or 85.0%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boehringer Ingelheim at 56.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $13,527 and has fallen 61.0% since, to $5,274 in 2025.

$37,606in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 96 payments — averaging $391.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$21K
  • Bayer$6K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$6K
  • Gilead$2K
  • Abbott$2K
  • Abiomed$161
  • plus $623 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,4004%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$31,96285%
  • Travel & lodging$8712%
  • Food & beverage$3,3519%
  • Education$220%

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

$37,606 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 28 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$129,736
Medicare patients
397
Services billed
1,464

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
Tyvaso DpiTreprostinil32$776,553
AdempasRiociguat46$638,840
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan455$424,288
JardianceEmpagliflozin307$289,176
OpsumitMacitentan12$151,744
EliquisApixaban151$145,278
Ambrisentan24$100,229
XareltoRivaroxaban41$40,512
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol43$35,943
Tacrolimus83$22,833
Mycophenolate Mofetil64$16,652
Tadalafil11$15,297
Sirolimus31$13,485
Sildenafil Citrate48$8,174
Torsemide308$7,736

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
BayerAdempas$5,848$638,84046 claims
NovartisEntresto$73$424,288455 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$21,176$289,176307 claims
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Opsumit$61$151,74412 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$14$35,94343 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 85th percentile of 28 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Tennessee.

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