RxDoctor Payments Data

Sanjeeb Bhattacharya, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1730471970

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Eli Lilly at 49.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,118 and has fallen 88.4% since, to $479 in 2025.

$7,110in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $182.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Eli Lilly$4K
  • Abbott$2K
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$604
  • Medtronic$476
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$344
  • Inari Medical, Inc.$117
  • plus $401 from 5 others
$906,747in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $11,334 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.

  • Merck$710K
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$167K
  • Applied Therapeutics, Inc.$30K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,52050%
  • Travel & lodging$5778%
  • Food & beverage$3,01342%

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

$7,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 62 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$104,731
Medicare patients
409
Services billed
1,011

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
VyndamaxTafamidis164$3,862,932
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan473$673,319
VyndaqelTafamidis Meglumine25$567,736
UptraviSelexipag21$543,536
JardianceEmpagliflozin401$491,810
OpsumitMacitentan18$233,231
EliquisApixaban178$203,829
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol166$203,542
Tadalafil25$50,831
XareltoRivaroxaban12$18,155
Isosorbide Dinitrate33$15,173
Torsemide217$9,248
Metoprolol Succinate351$7,055
Eplerenone66$4,422
Spironolactone491$4,270

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
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Uptravi, Opsumit$100$776,76839 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$344$491,810401 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 60th percentile of 62 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Ohio.

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