RxDoctor Payments Data

Nadal Aker, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Decatur, ILNPI 1083671911

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,345in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 67 payments — averaging $20.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$246
  • Amgen$207
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$112
  • Novartis$99
  • Heartflow, Inc.$81
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$58
  • plus $543 from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,345100%

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

$1,345 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$198,988
Medicare patients
1,156
Services billed
4,279

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
EliquisApixaban317$361,101
XareltoRivaroxaban165$185,468
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan105$143,299
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab85$83,709
JardianceEmpagliflozin60$51,572
BrilintaTicagrelor55$44,324
Praluent PenAlirocumab37$22,984
Ranolazine ErRanolazine191$20,942
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab25$16,643
Metoprolol Succinate485$7,343
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate408$6,236
Ezetimibe206$6,216
Esomeprazole Magnesium81$6,190
Atorvastatin Calcium697$5,085
Amlodipine Besylate542$4,170

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$246$185,468165 claims
NovartisEntresto$99$143,299105 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$33$51,57260 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$13$44,32455 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 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.

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