RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Cheezum, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1225235013

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,739in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $22.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$620
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$215
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$165
  • Amgen$153
  • Heartflow, Inc.$131
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$92
  • plus $362 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,739100%

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.

How this compares

$1,739 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 408 cardiovascular disease providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$108,113
Medicare patients
943
Services billed
1,428

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
EliquisApixaban468$553,619
XareltoRivaroxaban66$99,195
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab97$74,950
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan28$24,971
Praluent PenAlirocumab27$20,121
JardianceEmpagliflozin19$18,821
NexletolBempedoic Acid21$17,002
OzempicSemaglutide14$15,252
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl19$14,621
Carvedilol581$4,574
Atorvastatin Calcium555$4,083
Metoprolol Succinate362$3,850
Midodrine Hcl19$3,453
Ezetimibe86$2,987
Amiodarone Hcl47$2,741

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$19$553,619468 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$620$99,19566 claims
NovartisEntresto$71$24,97128 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$92$18,82119 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 40th percentile of 408 cardiovascular disease providers in Indiana.

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