RxDoctor Payments Data

Steven Rudick

Interventional Cardiology · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1346507464

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,110 of the $7,298 with a category attached, or 83.7%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 38.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,142 and has fallen 85.2% since, to $317 in 2025.

$7,298in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 99 payments — averaging $73.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$3K
  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Biotronik Inc.$643
  • Penumbra, Inc.$200
  • Shockwave Medical, Inc$171
  • plus $882 from 13 others
$208,479in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 83 payments — averaging $2511.80 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.

  • Boston Scientific$208K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,18816%
  • Food & beverage$6,11084%

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

$7,298 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 256 interventional cardiology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$134,799
Medicare patients
369
Services billed
1,013

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
EliquisApixaban134$137,730
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab47$36,097
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan33$34,048
JardianceEmpagliflozin43$32,396
XareltoRivaroxaban16$25,703
Praluent PenAlirocumab30$19,204
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab11$6,017
Atorvastatin Calcium296$2,435
Metoprolol Succinate165$2,055
Ezetimibe69$1,600
Carvedilol139$1,221
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate54$705
Amlodipine Besylate126$547
Rosuvastatin Calcium66$542
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate57$500

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$14$137,730134 claims
NovartisEntresto$20$34,04833 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$103$25,70316 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 60th percentile of 256 interventional cardiology providers in Ohio.

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