RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Cheung, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Allentown, PANPI 1023341203

Payments from drug & device makers

$580in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $29.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$205
  • Pfizer$159
  • Abbott$125
  • Philips North America LLC$27
  • Johnson & Johnson$18
  • Amgen$18
  • plus $28 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$580100%

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

$580 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$140,866
Medicare patients
1,409
Services billed
2,271

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
EliquisApixaban217$263,500
XareltoRivaroxaban72$82,414
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab50$47,635
JardianceEmpagliflozin30$33,277
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan20$15,648
Praluent PenAlirocumab18$12,190
Metoprolol Succinate427$6,510
Rosuvastatin Calcium251$4,507
Atorvastatin Calcium226$3,007
Valsartan67$1,970
Ezetimibe56$1,930
Midodrine Hcl15$1,844
Amlodipine Besylate228$1,768
Pravastatin Sodium67$1,350
Losartan Potassium114$1,267

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$159$263,500217 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$18$82,41472 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$15$33,27730 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 25th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.

Other cardiovascular disease in Allentown

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