RxDoctor Payments Data

Saeed Shaikh, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Indianapolis, INNPI 1407828817

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (58.8%), food and beverage and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 35.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,665 and has fallen 66.4% since, to $1,566 in 2025.

$13,909in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 183 payments — averaging $76.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Edwards Lifesciences$5K
  • Abbott$4K
  • Boston Scientific$2K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Livanova USA, Inc.$876
  • Novartis$161
  • plus $678 from 11 others
$351,779in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 107 payments — averaging $3287.65 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Boston Scientific$132K
  • CSL Behring$115K
  • Novartis$44K
  • Abbott$39K
  • Amgen$22K

What the payments were for

  • Grants$891%
  • Travel & lodging$8,17759%
  • Food & beverage$5,64441%

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

$13,909 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 170 interventional cardiology providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$189,842
Medicare patients
475
Services billed
1,176

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
EliquisApixaban104$126,392
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab34$49,298
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan15$24,623
XareltoRivaroxaban16$18,254
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl14$9,928
Metoprolol Succinate293$4,416
Atorvastatin Calcium296$3,126
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate203$2,683
Ezetimibe103$2,569
Carvedilol286$2,087
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl45$1,825
Rosuvastatin Calcium130$1,329
Losartan Potassium113$1,286
Potassium Chloride40$847
Nitroglycerin56$789

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$52$126,392104 claims
NovartisEntresto$161$24,62315 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$125$18,25416 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 70th percentile of 170 interventional cardiology providers in Indiana.

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