RxDoctor Payments Data

Zi Jian Xu, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Sacramento, CANPI 1437122538

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (59.5%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. accounts for 68.9% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$67,225in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 188 payments — averaging $357.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$46K
  • Abbott$5K
  • Briohealth Solutions, Inc.$5K
  • Pfizer$4K
  • Abiomed$2K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$2K
  • plus $4K from 19 others
$76,601in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $2641.41 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Abbott$59K
  • Merck$17K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$9,36014%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$39,97559%
  • Travel & lodging$7,64711%
  • Food & beverage$10,03815%
  • Education$2050%

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

$67,225 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 111 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$282,749
Medicare patients
758
Services billed
3,241

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
VyndamaxTafamidis38$1,321,943
CamzyosMavacamten56$454,172
EliquisApixaban317$406,295
UptraviSelexipag20$402,891
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan178$213,755
OpsumitMacitentan13$183,006
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol93$113,509
JardianceEmpagliflozin81$105,112
XareltoRivaroxaban61$66,166
Ambrisentan11$31,350
MultaqDronedarone Hcl13$28,170
MounjaroTirzepatide13$11,835
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab12$9,403
Metoprolol Succinate342$5,483
Atorvastatin Calcium407$4,203

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
PfizerVyndamax, Eliquis$3,815$1,728,238355 claims
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Uptravi, Opsumit$478$585,89733 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Camzyos$46,328$454,17256 claims
NovartisEntresto$544$213,755178 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$230$113,50993 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$149$105,11281 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$12$66,16661 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 75th percentile of 111 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in California.

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