RxDoctor Payments Data

Sheda Monfared Beheshti, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Buffalo, NYNPI 1386165942

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,505in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $104.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Edwards Lifesciences$2K
  • Heartflow, Inc.$2K
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$342
  • Abbott$307
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$143
  • AstraZeneca$140
  • plus $294 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,71560%
  • Food & beverage$1,29529%
  • Education$49611%

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

$4,505 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$5,900
Medicare patients
14
Services billed
46

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin29$42,798
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol38$31,690
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan36$20,573
EliquisApixaban11$17,704
Metoprolol Succinate64$627
Rosuvastatin Calcium42$537
Losartan Potassium21$232
Spironolactone39$162
Torsemide17$130
Metoprolol Tartrate12$127
Furosemide22$86
Lisinopril14$65

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$143$42,79829 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$140$31,69038 claims
PfizerEliquis$89$17,70411 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 65th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

Other cardiovascular disease in Buffalo

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