RxDoctor Payments Data

Zelalem Yilma, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Mesa, AZNPI 1164421251

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,825in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 147 payments — averaging $19.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$460
  • Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$284
  • Abbott$280
  • Merck$233
  • Novartis$218
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$178
  • plus $1K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,75097%
  • Education$753%

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

$2,825 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,208,051
Medicare patients
797
Services billed
7,330

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
EliquisApixaban352$422,729
XareltoRivaroxaban55$78,890
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan50$69,390
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab52$37,698
BrilintaTicagrelor18$21,612
Praluent PenAlirocumab11$9,394
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol13$8,627
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab15$8,565
Rosuvastatin Calcium379$6,262
Metoprolol Succinate222$3,372
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate309$3,152
Nebivolol Hcl22$2,584
Metoprolol Tartrate441$2,463
Atorvastatin Calcium233$2,243
Losartan Potassium179$1,783

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$43$422,729352 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$19$78,89055 claims
NovartisEntresto$218$69,39050 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$86$30,23931 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 50th percentile of 423 cardiovascular disease providers in Arizona.

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