RxDoctor Payments Data

Ron Wexler, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Saint Paul, MNNPI 1992067938

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,136in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 100 payments — averaging $31.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$2K
  • Biotronik Inc.$329
  • Johnson & Johnson$238
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$237
  • Amgen$128
  • Abbott$124
  • plus $431 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,10599%
  • Education$311%

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

$3,136 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$57,102
Medicare patients
842
Services billed
1,194

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$166,336
XareltoRivaroxaban33$48,532
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab36$40,348
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan14$13,320
Metoprolol Succinate229$3,604
Ezetimibe112$3,593
Atorvastatin Calcium190$2,767
Rosuvastatin Calcium190$2,684
Flecainide Acetate32$1,202
Lisinopril108$1,030
Amlodipine Besylate105$1,025
Losartan Potassium80$937
Furosemide102$804
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl28$696
Spironolactone65$610

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$19$166,336136 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$238$48,53233 claims
NovartisEntresto$12$13,32014 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 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.

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