RxDoctor Payments Data

Shaun Giancaterino, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Sacramento, CANPI 1679005854

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,720in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 86 payments — averaging $43.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$427
  • Biotronik Inc.$291
  • Amgen$237
  • Pfizer$231
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$219
  • plus $871 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,704100%
  • Education$160%

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

$3,720 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$101,336
Medicare patients
872
Services billed
2,144

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
EliquisApixaban188$183,273
JardianceEmpagliflozin106$120,844
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan98$98,865
XareltoRivaroxaban59$71,387
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab48$28,987
Rosuvastatin Calcium104$4,611
Metoprolol Succinate192$3,092
Ezetimibe42$2,675
Atorvastatin Calcium68$1,728
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate34$1,158
Losartan Potassium56$1,060
Amiodarone Hcl50$1,050
Chlorthalidone31$933
Amlodipine Besylate75$828
Carvedilol89$802

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$231$183,273188 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$124$120,844106 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 55th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in Sacramento

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