RxDoctor Payments Data

Andrew Fowler, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1831274372

Payments from drug & device makers

$422in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $24.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$187
  • Medtronic$52
  • Abiomed$32
  • AstraZeneca$27
  • Amgen$25
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$23
  • plus $76 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$39092%
  • Education$328%

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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24

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

$422 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$219,340
Medicare patients
1,714
Services billed
4,367

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
EliquisApixaban1,465$1,536,267
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan574$646,563
XareltoRivaroxaban373$411,501
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab183$174,196
JardianceEmpagliflozin105$125,084
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol32$33,139
BrilintaTicagrelor25$23,701
Rosuvastatin Calcium1,125$17,635
Praluent PenAlirocumab23$15,863
Ranolazine ErRanolazine84$15,711
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab18$13,810
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl372$13,722
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate43$12,757
Metoprolol Succinate735$12,755
CorlanorIvabradine Hcl18$10,013

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$20$1,536,2671,465 claims
NovartisEntresto$22$646,563574 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$18$411,501373 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$23$125,084105 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$27$56,84057 claims
AmgenCorlanor$25$10,01318 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 25th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

Other cardiovascular disease in Chattanooga

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