RxDoctor Payments Data

Shahbaaz Shaikh, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Sebastian, FLNPI 1295854826

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,339in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 61 payments — averaging $21.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$210
  • Abbott$181
  • Inari Medical, Inc.$161
  • Pfizer$119
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$92
  • Novartis$72
  • plus $503 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,24893%
  • Education$917%

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

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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

$1,339 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$290,877
Medicare patients
769
Services billed
3,822

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
EliquisApixaban612$693,566
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan106$144,466
XareltoRivaroxaban106$135,527
JardianceEmpagliflozin22$34,981
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab18$24,103
Praluent PenAlirocumab35$16,946
MultaqDronedarone Hcl15$16,707
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol12$14,830
Metoprolol Succinate570$9,080
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl19$7,968
Ranolazine ErRanolazine47$6,201
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate13$6,175
Atorvastatin Calcium439$5,038
Nifedipine ErNifedipine133$4,152
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl108$3,544

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$119$693,566612 claims
NovartisEntresto$72$144,466106 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$17$135,527106 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$52$34,98122 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$210$16,70715 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$16$14,83012 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 30th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.

Other cardiovascular disease in Sebastian

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