RxDoctor Payments Data

Omar Abouezzeddine, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Rochester, MNNPI 1740480391

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $8,560 of the $9,756 with a category attached, or 87.7%. 3 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. at 50.8% of the total.

$9,756in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $1083.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$5K
  • Pfizer$5K
  • Medtronic$202
$649,131in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $108,188 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.

  • Pfizer$649K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8,56088%
  • Travel & lodging$8409%
  • Food & beverage$3564%

General payments by program year

19
23
24

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
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.7$4,954
Pfizer1$4,600
Medtronic1$202

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

$9,756 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 32 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$63,163
Medicare patients
311
Services billed
664

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
VyndamaxTafamidis171$4,117,613
VyndaqelTafamidis Meglumine76$1,656,396
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan104$153,136
JardianceEmpagliflozin120$149,338
EliquisApixaban46$64,848
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol44$43,808
Torsemide46$2,788
Metoprolol Succinate109$2,705
Eplerenone11$1,024
Atorvastatin Calcium67$690
Spironolactone69$510
Potassium Chloride16$415
Losartan Potassium30$391
Hydralazine Hcl16$349
Carvedilol36$346

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
PfizerVyndamax, Vyndaqel, Eliquis$4,600$5,838,857293 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 80th percentile of 32 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Minnesota.

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