Scott Fertels, DO
Cardiovascular Disease · Haddon Heights, NJNPI 1871544718
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 451 payments — averaging $16.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$1K
- Amgen$674
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$666
- Pfizer$598
- Abbott$452
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$434
- plus $3K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,254100%
- Education$60%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 95 | $1,207 |
| Amgen | 47 | $674 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 23 | $666 |
| Pfizer | 45 | $598 |
| Abbott | 17 | $452 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 29 | $434 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 29 | $379 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 28 | $322 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $320 |
| Merck | 21 | $308 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $297 |
| AstraZeneca | 20 | $282 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 13 | $171 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 11 | $161 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 10 | $130 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 8 | $115 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $100 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $70 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Bayer | 3 | $59 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 3 | $50 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $35 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $27 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $17 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| CMP Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| GSK | 1 | $13 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- OPTIMIZER$260
- CoreValve Evolut$202
- LEQVIO$119
- Pipeline$117
- WATCHMAN FLX$104
How this compares
$7,260 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 212 | $255,631 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 106 | $126,840 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 22 | $36,173 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 28 | $32,224 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 20 | $29,539 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 11 | $15,703 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 11 | $12,798 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 455 | $5,204 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 32 | $3,850 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 227 | $3,687 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 263 | $3,385 |
| Ezetimibe | 138 | $2,524 |
| Carvedilol | 229 | $2,450 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 305 | $2,381 |
| Losartan Potassium | 185 | $2,118 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $598 | $255,631212 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $322 | $126,840106 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta | $282 | $42,33731 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $1,207 | $36,17322 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $171 | $15,70311 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 1,006 cardiovascular disease providers in New Jersey.
Other cardiovascular disease in Haddon Heights
- Mark GelerntHaddon Heights$2M
- Dilip ViswanathHaddon Heights$1.8M
- Sanford GipsHaddon Heights$668K
- Andreas PavlidesHaddon Heights$598K
- Vijayendra VermaHaddon Heights$359K
- Harvey SnyderHaddon Heights$93K
- Robert KippermanMorristown$5.3M
- Sharan MahalBridgewater$3.5M
- Linda GillamMorristown$2.2M
- Robert FishbergSpringfield$1.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.