RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Brunner, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1659545440

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,805in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 135 payments — averaging $87.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$5K
  • Medtronic$4K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$1K
  • Boston Scientific$722
  • Atricure, Inc.$240
  • Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$173
  • plus $885 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$3,10426%
  • Food & beverage$8,70174%

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

$11,805 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 105 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$122,538
Medicare patients
900
Services billed
2,104

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
EliquisApixaban922$1,042,681
XareltoRivaroxaban146$180,411
Dofetilide77$15,640
Metoprolol Succinate407$14,872
Flecainide Acetate236$14,057
Amiodarone Hcl342$7,497
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate15$6,904
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl173$6,292
Mexiletine Hcl19$2,824
SotalolSotalol Hcl73$1,841
Cartia XtDiltiazem Hcl12$480
Losartan Potassium20$399
Omeprazole25$300
Carvedilol15$184
Lisinopril14$139

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$152$180,411146 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 30th percentile of 105 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Michigan.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Grand Rapids

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