RxDoctor Payments Data

Melana Yuzefpolskaya, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · New York, NYNPI 1457673402

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (45.0%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 95.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $13,462, more than ten times the $854 reported in 2019.

$43,677in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 324 payments — averaging $134.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$42K
  • Novartis$1K
  • Cvrx, Inc.$297
  • Abiomed$136
  • Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$53
  • Merck$48
  • plus $124 from 4 others
$184,558in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $14,197 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$185K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$11,12525%
  • Travel & lodging$19,63645%
  • Food & beverage$12,91530%

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

$43,677 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 106 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$117,539
Medicare patients
196
Services billed
830

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/Valsartan112$125,334
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol43$56,485
EliquisApixaban36$40,715
Everolimus44$38,595
JardianceEmpagliflozin28$37,139
Envarsus XrTacrolimus21$32,249
VerquvoVericiguat16$12,403
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl23$9,673
Valganciclovir Hcl24$8,001
Tacrolimus55$7,202
Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified16$3,701
Mycophenolate Mofetil27$3,671
Metoprolol Succinate68$1,602
Esomeprazole Magnesium20$1,006
Eplerenone17$783

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$1,388$125,334112 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$44$56,48543 claims
MerckVerquvo$48$12,40316 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 106 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in New York.

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