RxDoctor Payments Data

Seth Goldbarg, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Flushing, NYNPI 1245279272

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Volta Medical Inc at 28.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $16,400 and has fallen 69.6% since, to $4,980 in 2025.

$60,058in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 262 payments — averaging $229.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Volta Medical Inc$17K
  • Biotronik Inc.$15K
  • Substrate HD$14K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$4K
  • Boston Scientific$3K
  • Abbott$2K
  • plus $5K from 12 others
$190,521in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 170 payments — averaging $1120.71 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.

  • Volta Medical Inc$112K
  • Biotronik Inc.$42K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$22K
  • Boston Scientific$15K
$13,133in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $2626.63 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

  • Substrate HD$13K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$27,60646%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,5276%
  • Travel & lodging$12,05220%
  • Food & beverage$16,84328%
  • Education$290%

General payments by program year

19
20
21
22
23
24
25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Volta Medical Inc25$17,243
Biotronik Inc.80$14,658
Substrate HD3$13,875
Biosense Webster, Inc.34$4,067
Boston Scientific52$3,255
Abbott18$1,886
Atricure, Inc.7$1,866
Medtronic(2 entities)17$898
EBR Systems, Inc.4$680
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC1$650
Stereotaxis Inc1$326
Johnson & Johnson9$227
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC1$138
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.1$121
Pfizer4$94
Boehringer Ingelheim2$38
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)2$21
Novartis1$16

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

$60,058 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 214 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in New York.

See all clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in New York

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$230,806
Medicare patients
688
Services billed
2,508

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
EliquisApixaban174$166,951
XareltoRivaroxaban56$57,105
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan27$26,456
Amiodarone Hcl64$2,405
Metoprolol Succinate109$1,836
Propranolol Hcl ErPropranolol Hcl20$628
Losartan Potassium20$300
Atorvastatin Calcium32$287
Metoprolol Tartrate30$211
Amlodipine Besylate19$138
Furosemide33$123
SotalolSotalol Hcl12$96
Carvedilol12$51

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$94$166,951174 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$227$57,10556 claims
NovartisEntresto$16$26,45627 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 75th percentile of 214 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in New York.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Flushing

See the full list for New York

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →