RxDoctor Payments Data

Vivienne Smith, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Albany, NYNPI 1306831771

Payments from drug & device makers

$560in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $12.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$195
  • Novartis$161
  • Cleerly, Inc.$50
  • Pfizer$41
  • Abbott$34
  • Johnson & Johnson$20
  • plus $59 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$560100%

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.

How this compares

$560 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$181,042
Medicare patients
236
Services billed
4,859

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
EliquisApixaban332$319,499
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab185$164,918
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan67$61,802
Nicardipine Hcl73$32,800
Clonidine295$23,174
Praluent PenAlirocumab19$19,176
Isradipine111$16,057
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab18$14,029
Nifedipine ErNifedipine432$9,771
Pindolol67$8,410
Nebivolol Hcl105$7,038
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl26$7,000
Potassium Chloride352$6,066
Atorvastatin Calcium484$5,557
Doxazosin Mesylate250$5,410

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$41$319,499332 claims
NovartisEntresto$161$61,80267 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 30th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.

Other cardiovascular disease in Albany

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