RxDoctor Payments Data

William Pitt, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · San Diego, CANPI 1861544850

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,132in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $20.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$214
  • Gilead$119
  • Johnson & Johnson$68
  • Bayer$67
  • Abbott$65
  • Biotronik Inc.$58
  • plus $541 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,11799%
  • Education$151%

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

$1,132 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$7,169
Medicare patients
48
Services billed
80

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
EliquisApixaban65$62,150
JardianceEmpagliflozin16$18,654
LinzessLinaclotide11$12,577
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol12$4,648
Metoprolol Succinate39$1,114
Losartan Potassium74$775
Valsartan25$751
Amlodipine Besylate134$739
Atorvastatin Calcium71$695
Lisinopril68$567
Celecoxib11$567
Labetalol Hcl24$556
Levothyroxine Sodium32$534
Rosuvastatin Calcium39$448
Metformin Hcl30$423

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$39$62,15065 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$40$18,65416 claims
AbbVieLinzess$214$12,57711 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 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

Other cardiovascular disease in San Diego

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