RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Lux, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Springfield, NJNPI 1295701688

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,293in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 144 payments — averaging $15.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$396
  • Novartis$276
  • Merck$162
  • Pfizer$128
  • Johnson & Johnson$124
  • Baxter Healthcare$116
  • plus $1K from 24 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,293100%

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

$2,293 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$222,209
Medicare patients
806
Services billed
2,864

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
EliquisApixaban285$351,098
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab173$208,500
XareltoRivaroxaban66$85,070
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan53$77,153
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl86$65,630
Praluent PenAlirocumab80$63,702
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol42$26,668
Icosapent Ethyl58$26,011
EdarbyclorAzilsartan Med/Chlorthalidone25$14,036
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium14$13,069
BrilintaTicagrelor17$12,203
Metoprolol Succinate691$11,475
Rosuvastatin Calcium584$9,438
Pitavastatin Calcium26$8,447
EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil11$7,604

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$128$351,098285 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$124$85,07066 claims
NovartisEntresto$276$77,15353 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$47$38,87159 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 45th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.

Other cardiovascular disease in Springfield

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