RxDoctor Payments Data

Rim Al-Bezem, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Columbus, NJNPI 1629076625

Payments from drug & device makers

$638in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $24.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$265
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$92
  • Amgen$74
  • Merck$44
  • Johnson & Johnson$42
  • Abbott$33
  • plus $88 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$638100%

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.

How this compares

$638 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$168,329
Medicare patients
1,161
Services billed
3,331

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
EliquisApixaban305$345,012
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan113$128,173
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab79$60,742
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol41$50,576
XareltoRivaroxaban64$49,692
MultaqDronedarone Hcl15$20,745
Praluent PenAlirocumab13$10,532
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$7,359
Metoprolol Succinate530$7,099
Repatha PushtronexEvolocumab11$6,510
Atorvastatin Calcium527$5,971
Rosuvastatin Calcium291$5,153
Valsartan99$4,612
Nebivolol Hcl72$4,578
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate193$3,870

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$14$345,012305 claims
NovartisEntresto$15$128,173113 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$31$50,57641 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$42$49,69264 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$27$7,35912 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 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.

Other cardiovascular disease in Columbus

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