RxDoctor Payments Data

Sheldon Brownstein, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1174520464

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,028in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 90 payments — averaging $22.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$536
  • Medtronic$237
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$230
  • Cvrx, Inc.$145
  • Pfizer$112
  • Boston Scientific$95
  • plus $674 from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,00399%
  • Education$251%

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

$2,028 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$376,744
Medicare patients
3,112
Services billed
5,810

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
EliquisApixaban419$554,498
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan145$176,212
XareltoRivaroxaban97$120,544
JardianceEmpagliflozin68$67,812
OzempicSemaglutide51$51,026
MounjaroTirzepatide48$50,406
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab17$21,073
MultaqDronedarone Hcl13$13,174
Ezetimibe436$9,628
Metoprolol Succinate691$9,530
Rosuvastatin Calcium523$6,846
EdarbyclorAzilsartan Med/Chlorthalidone11$5,221
Torsemide179$4,309
Atorvastatin Calcium255$2,875
Flecainide Acetate55$2,720

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$112$554,498419 claims
NovartisEntresto$536$176,212145 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$60$120,54497 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$15$67,81268 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$46$51,02651 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$29$13,17413 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 35th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.

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