RxDoctor Payments Data

Scott Hessen, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Philadelphia, PANPI 1184697914

Payments from drug & device makers

$24,139in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 107 payments — averaging $225.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$12K
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$8K
  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • Pfizer$223
  • Novartis$212
  • Amgen$140
  • plus $2K from 24 others
$5,479in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $2739.69 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.

  • Amgen$5K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8,14665%
  • Food & beverage$4,35835%

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

$24,139 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 201 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$711,506
Medicare patients
1,219
Services billed
5,753

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
EliquisApixaban202$224,563
XareltoRivaroxaban113$143,291
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan67$89,395
JardianceEmpagliflozin23$20,429
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol14$12,025
Dofetilide18$6,615
Metoprolol Succinate261$3,734
Atorvastatin Calcium251$3,323
Ezetimibe76$2,900
Rosuvastatin Calcium137$2,411
Carvedilol121$1,848
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl32$1,640
Flecainide Acetate22$1,467
Propafenone Hcl30$1,426
Amiodarone Hcl90$1,383

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$223$224,563202 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,824$143,291113 claims
NovartisEntresto$212$89,39567 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$47$20,42923 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$119$12,02514 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 45th percentile of 201 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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