RxDoctor Payments Data

Paul Natterson, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Santa Monica, CANPI 1467458018

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,264in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 210 payments — averaging $20.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$667
  • Amgen$565
  • Johnson & Johnson$280
  • Pfizer$278
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$263
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$256
  • plus $2K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,264100%

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

$4,264 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$174,308
Medicare patients
464
Services billed
3,595

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
VyndamaxTafamidis12$270,484
EliquisApixaban173$190,281
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab142$129,875
XareltoRivaroxaban43$52,554
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan28$22,523
Praluent PenAlirocumab15$17,024
BrilintaTicagrelor11$13,583
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl22$10,460
CrestorRosuvastatin Calcium13$5,711
Nebivolol Hcl73$5,258
Rosuvastatin Calcium328$5,114
Ezetimibe166$4,818
Metoprolol Succinate237$3,933
Atorvastatin Calcium329$3,919
Icosapent Ethyl14$3,038

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, Eliquis$278$460,765185 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$280$52,55443 claims
NovartisEntresto$667$22,52328 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Crestor$149$19,29524 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 55th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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