RxDoctor Payments Data

Suhail Zavaro, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · El Cajon, CANPI 1730258195

Payments from drug & device makers

$62,908in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 415 payments — averaging $151.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$27K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$13K
  • Novo Nordisk AS$6K
  • Merck$5K
  • AstraZeneca$3K
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$2K
  • plus $8K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,762100%
  • Education$290%

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

$62,908 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$102,241
Medicare patients
229
Services billed
1,018

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan329$327,115
XareltoRivaroxaban190$189,429
JardianceEmpagliflozin164$142,183
EliquisApixaban152$137,142
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol104$72,704
OzempicSemaglutide37$43,473
Praluent PenAlirocumab43$23,515
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab19$15,855
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab14$15,319
BrilintaTicagrelor20$9,462
Rosuvastatin Calcium468$6,374
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl11$4,935
Ranolazine ErRanolazine75$3,998
Metoprolol Succinate399$3,880
Clonidine25$2,525

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
NovartisEntresto$26,895$327,115329 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,167$189,429190 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$315$142,183164 claims
PfizerEliquis$446$137,142152 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$2,866$82,165124 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$347$43,47337 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 85th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in El Cajon

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