RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Banas, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Buffalo, NYNPI 1447283288

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,451in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 491 payments — averaging $17.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$1K
  • Novartis$1K
  • Pfizer$660
  • Merck$526
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$516
  • AstraZeneca$327
  • plus $4K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,437100%
  • Education$140%

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

$8,451 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$213,502
Medicare patients
1,084
Services billed
2,712

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin177$258,114
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan153$232,814
EliquisApixaban124$151,072
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab90$53,914
XareltoRivaroxaban21$24,863
Repatha PushtronexEvolocumab27$21,983
BrilintaTicagrelor24$20,149
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate24$10,073
Ranolazine ErRanolazine87$7,694
Rosuvastatin Calcium202$4,610
Metoprolol Succinate197$3,863
Ezetimibe99$2,357
Valsartan82$2,292
Atorvastatin Calcium123$1,917
Torsemide45$1,117

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$225$258,114177 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,009$232,814153 claims
PfizerEliquis$660$151,072124 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$223$24,86321 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$327$20,14924 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 75th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

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