RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael McLane

Cardiovascular Disease · Lehighton, PANPI 1669853271

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,189in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $91.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$513
  • Abbott$223
  • Edwards Lifesciences$145
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$125
  • Bayer$125
  • Chiesi USA, Inc.$43
  • plus $14 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$98183%
  • Education$20817%

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

$1,189 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$190,417
Medicare patients
1,462
Services billed
3,691

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
EliquisApixaban276$236,790
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan46$49,841
JardianceEmpagliflozin45$44,294
XareltoRivaroxaban41$42,804
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab43$23,076
BrilintaTicagrelor21$16,024
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl21$8,107
Metoprolol Succinate417$6,076
Atorvastatin Calcium510$4,972
Icosapent Ethyl20$4,818
LivaloPitavastatin Calcium14$4,379
Ezetimibe169$2,801
Potassium Chloride111$2,035
Amlodipine Besylate355$1,984
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate101$1,691

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
NovartisEntresto$14$49,84146 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$513$42,80441 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 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.

Other cardiovascular disease in Lehighton

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