RxDoctor Payments Data

Yuri Busi, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Los Angeles, CANPI 1104952548

Payments from drug & device makers

$131in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $21.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$93
  • Novartis$25
  • AstraZeneca$14

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$11889%
  • Education$1411%

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

19
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22

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Boston Scientific4$93
Novartis1$25
AstraZeneca1$14

How this compares

$131 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$981,945
Medicare patients
1,169
Services billed
8,350

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
XareltoRivaroxaban344$229,767
BrilintaTicagrelor337$157,438
EliquisApixaban177$111,052
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan126$86,554
Olmesartan-Amlodipine-HctzOlmesartan/Amlodipin/Hcthiazid764$68,476
Chlorzoxazone11$14,093
Propranolol Hcl966$7,997
TribenzorOlmesartan/Amlodipin/Hcthiazid16$7,523
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl13$6,695
Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide11$5,517
Olmesartan-HydrochlorothiazideOlmesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide305$5,307
Digoxin453$4,535
Amiodarone Hcl516$3,839
Theophylline ErTheophylline Anhydrous25$3,278
Nitroglycerin266$2,926

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
AstraZenecaBrilinta$14$157,438337 claims
NovartisEntresto$25$86,554126 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 10th percentile of 2,184 cardiovascular disease providers in California.

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