RxDoctor Payments Data

Raul Blanco, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Atlanta, GANPI 1134303498

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,642in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 88 payments — averaging $30.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Heartflow, Inc.$944
  • Novartis$525
  • Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$319
  • Abbott$138
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$130
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$103
  • plus $484 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$35613%
  • Food & beverage$2,28687%

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

$2,642 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$113,674
Medicare patients
810
Services billed
1,679

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
EliquisApixaban136$174,645
JardianceEmpagliflozin37$44,830
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan39$42,788
XareltoRivaroxaban27$39,533
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol11$12,987
Ezetimibe165$3,673
Rosuvastatin Calcium324$3,636
Atorvastatin Calcium335$3,191
Metoprolol Succinate251$3,095
Amlodipine Besylate270$1,550
Hydralazine Hcl72$1,199
Potassium Chloride30$871
Losartan Potassium111$862
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate82$860
Carvedilol70$671

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$18$174,645136 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$15$44,83037 claims
NovartisEntresto$525$42,78839 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$26$39,53327 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$98$12,98711 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 50th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

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