RxDoctor Payments Data

Suzanne Feigofsky, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · West Des Moines, IANPI 1598760753

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 51.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,348, 3.0 times the $4,134 reported in 2019. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in IA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$58,530in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 277 payments — averaging $211.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$30K
  • Abbott$17K
  • Boston Scientific$8K
  • Lundbeck LLC$4K
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$130
  • Novartis$124
  • plus $279 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$6,55011%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$25,08843%
  • Travel & lodging$15,17526%
  • Food & beverage$11,58720%
  • Education$1300%

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

$58,530 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 142 cardiovascular disease providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$328,067
Medicare patients
1,410
Services billed
7,965

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
EliquisApixaban241$183,545
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan107$69,149
XareltoRivaroxaban36$39,251
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab41$28,425
JardianceEmpagliflozin34$20,200
BrilintaTicagrelor20$10,030
Praluent PenAlirocumab17$7,861
VerquvoVericiguat11$6,930
Flecainide Acetate183$4,258
Metoprolol Succinate400$3,808
Midodrine Hcl65$3,349
Bumetanide90$2,649
Dofetilide19$2,418
Amiodarone Hcl157$2,038
SotalolSotalol Hcl81$1,759

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$58$183,545241 claims
NovartisEntresto$124$69,149107 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$117$39,25136 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$50$20,20034 claims
MerckVerquvo$13$6,93011 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 95th percentile of 142 cardiovascular disease providers in Iowa.

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