RxDoctor Payments Data

Zhen Jiao, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Metairie, LANPI 1073772331

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $7,431 of the $10,691 with a category attached, or 69.5%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 50.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,881 and has fallen 75.4% since, to $1,937 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $18,132.

$10,691in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 114 payments — averaging $93.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$5K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Cook Incorporated$1K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$1K
  • Atricure, Inc.$862
  • Cook Medical LLC$248
  • plus $405 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$7,43170%
  • Food & beverage$3,26030%

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

$10,691 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 43 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$157,255
Medicare patients
243
Services billed
947

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
EliquisApixaban131$115,999
XareltoRivaroxaban33$29,336
MultaqDronedarone Hcl14$17,785
Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl16$1,937
Flecainide Acetate36$1,615
Propafenone Hcl27$1,138
SotalolSotalol Hcl64$1,015
Metoprolol Succinate42$488
Doxycycline Hyclate42$348
Fludrocortisone Acetate15$235
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen30$157
Amiodarone Hcl20$137
Pantoprazole Sodium12$69

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$86$115,999131 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$66$29,33633 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$42$17,78514 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 43 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Louisiana.

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