RxDoctor Payments Data

Pedro Kourtesis, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Astoria, NYNPI 1417999806

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,788in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 238 payments — averaging $24.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$774
  • Bayer$765
  • Novartis$711
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$674
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$611
  • Merck$483
  • plus $2K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,788100%

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

$5,788 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$4,077
Medicare patients
14
Services billed
22

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin205$206,996
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan155$159,383
EliquisApixaban179$151,829
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol117$111,697
XareltoRivaroxaban72$93,320
KerendiaFinerenone66$70,958
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl115$66,304
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin56$57,941
RybelsusSemaglutide38$57,794
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate41$44,992
OzempicSemaglutide47$44,578
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl33$38,657
TrulicityDulaglutide20$29,398
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe26$20,964
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate16$13,002

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$611$219,114220 claims
NovartisEntresto$711$159,383155 claims
PfizerEliquis$119$151,829179 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$434$124,699133 claims
Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic$774$102,37285 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$16$93,32072 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$483$83,65074 claims
BayerKerendia$765$70,95866 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet$674$20,96426 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 70th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

Other cardiovascular disease in Astoria

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