RxDoctor Payments Data

Pablo Elizalde, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Savannah, GANPI 1831290055

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,103in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 437 payments — averaging $18.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$1K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$975
  • AstraZeneca$837
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$787
  • Medtronic$641
  • Johnson & Johnson$627
  • plus $3K from 25 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,066100%
  • Education$380%

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

$8,103 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$298,867
Medicare patients
904
Services billed
2,777

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
EliquisApixaban426$498,603
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan193$217,762
BrilintaTicagrelor131$118,741
XareltoRivaroxaban64$78,426
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab70$59,016
JardianceEmpagliflozin41$44,429
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol50$41,486
Praluent PenAlirocumab50$29,294
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab12$10,922
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe15$8,964
VerquvoVericiguat13$8,651
Metoprolol Succinate393$5,443
Carvedilol ErCarvedilol Phosphate12$4,501
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate310$3,604
Nitroglycerin PatchNitroglycerin64$3,535

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$274$498,603426 claims
NovartisEntresto$597$217,762193 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$837$160,227181 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$627$78,42664 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$568$44,42941 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet$45$8,96415 claims
MerckVerquvo$279$8,65113 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 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

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