RxDoctor Payments Data

Vijaya Sanikommu, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1396903613

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,631in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 67 payments — averaging $24.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$467
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$241
  • Novartis$213
  • Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$162
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$147
  • Johnson & Johnson$100
  • plus $300 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,631100%

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

$1,631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$69,966
Medicare patients
330
Services billed
660

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
EliquisApixaban48$30,359
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan25$17,477
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab21$12,101
BrilintaTicagrelor13$8,027
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$6,222
Ranolazine ErRanolazine13$1,164
Atorvastatin Calcium92$720
Rosuvastatin Calcium59$589
Warfarin Sodium28$356
Metoprolol Succinate35$348
Carvedilol31$273
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate25$185
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate18$151
Spironolactone46$130
Metoprolol Tartrate18$105

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$37$30,35948 claims
NovartisEntresto$213$17,47725 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$30$8,02713 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$241$6,22212 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 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.

Other cardiovascular disease in Pittsburgh

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