RxDoctor Payments Data

Sumit Sehgal, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Fort Dodge, IANPI 1083956502

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,347in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $49.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Biotronik Inc.$755
  • Cvrx, Inc.$125
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$94
  • Abbott$90
  • Boston Scientific$58
  • Medtronic$55
  • plus $170 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$43132%
  • Food & beverage$91668%

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

$1,347 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 142 cardiovascular disease providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$144,878
Medicare patients
763
Services billed
2,597

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
EliquisApixaban280$235,746
XareltoRivaroxaban70$69,083
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan19$23,313
BrilintaTicagrelor24$11,222
Praluent PenAlirocumab16$7,936
Metoprolol Succinate407$5,902
Potassium Chloride148$2,409
Ranolazine ErRanolazine19$2,220
Atorvastatin Calcium305$2,058
Ezetimibe47$1,455
SotalolSotalol Hcl110$1,441
Valsartan84$1,299
Amiodarone Hcl77$1,232
Midodrine Hcl18$1,229
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl80$1,186

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$12$23,31319 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 45th percentile of 142 cardiovascular disease providers in Iowa.

Other cardiovascular disease in Fort Dodge

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