RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Smolin, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Durango, CONPI 1821041245

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,123in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 213 payments — averaging $28.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$3K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Novartis$555
  • Medtronic$368
  • Abiomed$358
  • Amgen$265
  • plus $727 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,28421%
  • Food & beverage$4,83979%

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.

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

$6,123 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 111 interventional cardiology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$116,178
Medicare patients
554
Services billed
1,190

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
EliquisApixaban189$253,586
XareltoRivaroxaban67$109,053
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab68$79,265
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan38$63,698
JardianceEmpagliflozin22$31,877
Praluent PenAlirocumab37$29,761
Metoprolol Succinate315$4,463
Atorvastatin Calcium371$3,610
Amiodarone Hcl22$2,071
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate115$1,756
Carvedilol197$1,686
Ezetimibe70$1,634
Rosuvastatin Calcium104$1,455
Losartan Potassium150$1,428
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl48$1,268

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$140$253,586189 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$106$109,05367 claims
NovartisEntresto$555$63,69838 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$16$31,87722 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 35th percentile of 111 interventional cardiology providers in Colorado.

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