RxDoctor Payments Data

Ramzi Nassif, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Utica, NYNPI 1407854680

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,275in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 113 payments — averaging $20.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$715
  • Biotronik Inc.$326
  • Boston Scientific$126
  • Novartis$117
  • GE HealthCare$98
  • Pfizer$79
  • plus $813 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,23098%
  • Education$331%
  • Other$121%

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

$2,275 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 382 interventional cardiology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,461,747
Medicare patients
901
Services billed
9,937

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
EliquisApixaban248$275,788
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan53$54,909
XareltoRivaroxaban31$47,554
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab48$45,230
Telmisartan472$13,728
Praluent PenAlirocumab15$10,200
Metoprolol Succinate404$9,052
Ranolazine ErRanolazine57$5,575
Chlorthalidone226$4,960
Rosuvastatin Calcium250$4,604
Bisoprolol Fumarate118$4,199
Atorvastatin Calcium346$3,998
Pitavastatin Calcium28$3,791
Telmisartan-HydrochlorothiazidTelmisartan/Hydrochlorothiazid21$3,318
Ezetimibe121$3,293

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$79$275,788248 claims
NovartisEntresto$117$54,90953 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$63$47,55431 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 15th percentile of 382 interventional cardiology providers in New York.

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