RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Lander, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1003134719

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.6%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 57.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $7,492 and has fallen 77.7% since, to $1,673 in 2025.

$16,427in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 97 payments — averaging $169.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abiomed$9K
  • Abbott$6K
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$271
  • Endotronix, Inc.$235
  • Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$160
  • Edwards Lifesciences$125
  • plus $318 from 7 others
$387,819in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 151 payments — averaging $2568.34 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.

  • Abbott$186K
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$181K
  • Bayer$21K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,02512%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$7,00043%
  • Travel & lodging$2,39015%
  • Food & beverage$5,01231%

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

$16,427 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 96 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$58,694
Medicare patients
165
Services billed
528

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
VyndamaxTafamidis80$1,782,074
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan402$383,801
UptraviSelexipag13$273,354
JardianceEmpagliflozin272$256,395
Ambrisentan47$250,529
EliquisApixaban133$115,845
Tadalafil40$64,896
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol58$44,676
XareltoRivaroxaban13$21,483
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab35$18,513
Tacrolimus45$11,080
Bumetanide152$9,445
BrilintaTicagrelor14$7,668
Metoprolol Succinate331$4,862
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl13$4,642

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
PfizerVyndamax, Eliquis$121$1,897,919213 claims
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Uptravi$26$273,35413 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$13$52,34572 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$76$21,48313 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 96 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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