RxDoctor Payments Data

Sameer Azhak, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Wayne, NJNPI 1073672085

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,828in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 192 payments — averaging $19.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$495
  • Novartis$376
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$313
  • Johnson & Johnson$292
  • Medtronic$248
  • Pfizer$245
  • plus $2K from 29 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,810100%
  • Education$170%

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

$3,828 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$192,732
Medicare patients
863
Services billed
2,249

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$299,790
XareltoRivaroxaban48$62,116
MultaqDronedarone Hcl30$41,301
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab39$40,077
BrilintaTicagrelor32$37,051
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan30$25,335
Ranolazine ErRanolazine71$8,674
Metoprolol Succinate362$5,985
Rosuvastatin Calcium263$4,162
Atorvastatin Calcium348$4,143
Nebivolol Hcl61$4,086
Midodrine Hcl42$2,874
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate233$2,826
Valsartan81$2,707
Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters15$2,366

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$245$299,790305 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$292$62,11648 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$193$41,30130 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$102$37,05132 claims
NovartisEntresto$376$25,33530 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 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.

Other cardiovascular disease in Wayne

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