RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Ritchie, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Mesa, AZNPI 1760459945

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,240in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $53.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$394
  • AstraZeneca$217
  • Edwards Lifesciences$187
  • Heartflow, Inc.$168
  • Novo Nordisk$125
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$110
  • plus $39 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,240100%

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

$1,240 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$758,171
Medicare patients
1,873
Services billed
7,160

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
EliquisApixaban956$1,147,101
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan420$405,528
XareltoRivaroxaban216$276,683
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab103$110,941
JardianceEmpagliflozin36$39,886
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol52$35,244
Praluent PenAlirocumab33$23,827
Valsartan437$14,513
Metoprolol Succinate913$12,765
Atorvastatin Calcium990$8,894
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate34$7,616
Rosuvastatin Calcium499$7,120
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl206$5,851
SotalolSotalol Hcl209$5,164
Carvedilol499$5,012

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga$217$35,24452 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 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.

Other cardiovascular disease in Mesa

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