RxDoctor Payments Data

Paul Walinsky, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Philadelphia, PANPI 1265455497

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,560in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 88 payments — averaging $29.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$1K
  • Philips North America LLC$260
  • Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$139
  • Edwards Lifesciences$122
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$98
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$93
  • plus $435 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,560100%

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

$2,560 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$6,977
Medicare patients
65
Services billed
153

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
EliquisApixaban53$49,980
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan14$17,796
XareltoRivaroxaban12$14,349
Atorvastatin Calcium75$620
Metoprolol Succinate33$518
Losartan Potassium46$279
Carvedilol17$266
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate19$257
Lisinopril28$246
Amlodipine Besylate18$189
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate18$187
Atenolol19$184
Metoprolol Tartrate29$165
Furosemide33$157
Ezetimibe11$149

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$75$17,79614 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$45$14,34912 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 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.

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