RxDoctor Payments Data

Philip Zinn, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · San Antonio, TXNPI 1982681961

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,941in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 278 payments — averaging $17.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$740
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$510
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$419
  • Pfizer$373
  • Johnson & Johnson$357
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$319
  • plus $2K from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,89199%
  • Education$501%

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

$4,941 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$187,726
Medicare patients
766
Services billed
2,690

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
EliquisApixaban391$378,539
XareltoRivaroxaban150$135,404
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab85$78,707
JardianceEmpagliflozin74$46,934
Praluent PenAlirocumab56$40,318
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan15$23,442
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl43$20,435
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol26$19,078
Ezetimibe516$14,071
EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil19$10,720
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab13$10,615
Metoprolol Succinate697$10,584
Rosuvastatin Calcium576$7,275
EdarbyclorAzilsartan Med/Chlorthalidone16$5,480
Nebivolol Hcl78$4,590

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$373$378,539391 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$357$135,404150 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$319$46,93474 claims
NovartisEntresto$740$23,44215 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$128$19,07826 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi, Edarbyclor$16$16,20035 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 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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