RxDoctor Payments Data

Ramesh Agarwal, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Salisbury, MDNPI 1104926021

Payments from drug & device makers

$198in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $28.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abiomed$88
  • Pfizer$56
  • Abbott$24
  • Bayer$18
  • Medtronic$12

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$198100%

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

19
21
25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Abiomed1$88
Pfizer3$56
Abbott1$24
Bayer1$18
Medtronic1$12

How this compares

$198 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 507 cardiovascular disease providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$312,988
Medicare patients
1,075
Services billed
4,155

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
EliquisApixaban117$122,987
XareltoRivaroxaban33$42,681
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan29$34,021
BrilintaTicagrelor13$8,950
Rosuvastatin Calcium141$4,327
Atorvastatin Calcium239$3,641
Metoprolol Succinate206$3,416
Ezetimibe69$3,192
Losartan Potassium204$2,875
Pravastatin Sodium112$2,295
Amlodipine Besylate279$2,234
Amiodarone Hcl82$1,648
Fenofibrate49$1,513
Potassium Chloride47$1,000
Metoprolol Tartrate140$927

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$56$122,987117 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 20th percentile of 507 cardiovascular disease providers in Maryland.

Other cardiovascular disease in Salisbury

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