RxDoctor Payments Data

Samer Azouz, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Wexford, PANPI 1275532129

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $136,497 of the $159,905 with a category attached, or 85.4%. 39 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 32.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $44,477, 2.8 times the $15,972 reported in 2019. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$159,905in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,001 payments — averaging $159.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$51K
  • Amgen$35K
  • Novo Nordisk$32K
  • Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$16K
  • Novartis$13K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • plus $11K from 33 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3000%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$136,49785%
  • Travel & lodging$2,8572%
  • Food & beverage$20,13913%
  • Education$1130%

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

$159,905 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 281 interventional cardiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$154,448
Medicare patients
1,014
Services billed
1,784

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
EliquisApixaban629$631,463
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan240$275,255
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab272$237,100
XareltoRivaroxaban183$227,980
JardianceEmpagliflozin210$192,618
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol63$61,520
Droxidopa13$37,525
Praluent PenAlirocumab48$28,264
MultaqDronedarone Hcl12$25,925
Repatha PushtronexEvolocumab42$25,748
Ranolazine ErRanolazine175$17,149
Metoprolol Succinate902$14,623
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl26$13,703
Rosuvastatin Calcium588$11,343
Atorvastatin Calcium798$9,546

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$398$631,463629 claims
NovartisEntresto$13,375$275,255240 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$51,454$227,980183 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$895$192,618210 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$1,172$61,52063 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 90th percentile of 281 interventional cardiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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