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Nancy Sweitzer, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1619938081

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $29,554 of the $32,083 with a category attached, or 92.1%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Acorda Therapeutics, Inc at 31.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $19,715 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $1,205 in 2024.

$32,083in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $1106.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Acorda Therapeutics, Inc$10K
  • Novartis$9K
  • Merck$9K
  • AstraZeneca$4K
  • Novartis Pharma AG$187
  • Abbott$154
  • plus $50 from 1 others
$69,253in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $3147.86 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Amgen$19K
  • Array Biopharma Inc$18K
  • Vifor (international) Ltd.$15K
  • Merck$15K
  • Bavarian Nordic A/s$1K
  • Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$444

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$29,55492%
  • Travel & lodging$1,5535%
  • Food & beverage$9763%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc7$10,236
Novartis3$8,820
Merck10$8,816
AstraZeneca4$3,821
Novartis Pharma AG2$187
Abbott2$154
Amgen1$50

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

$32,083 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 26 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$32,100
Medicare patients
77
Services billed
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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan61$45,789
JardianceEmpagliflozin41$32,780
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol16$8,622
EliquisApixaban11$7,229
Carvedilol36$486
Spironolactone55$457
Metoprolol Succinate18$314
Furosemide26$296
Atorvastatin Calcium22$195
Rosuvastatin Calcium17$153
Amlodipine Besylate25$32

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$8,820$45,78961 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$3,821$8,62216 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 75th percentile of 26 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Missouri.

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