RxDoctor Payments Data

Bashir Lone, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Columbia, SCNPI 1205862943

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,203in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 134 payments — averaging $23.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$668
  • Novartis$471
  • Cook Research Incorporated$388
  • Johnson & Johnson$330
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$313
  • AstraZeneca$244
  • plus $788 from 14 others
$2,006in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $668.67 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.

  • Cook Research Incorporated$2K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$53719%
  • Food & beverage$2,26380%
  • Education$151%

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.

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

$3,203 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 117 interventional cardiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$362,907
Medicare patients
1,055
Services billed
4,597

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
EliquisApixaban199$180,733
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan77$106,564
XareltoRivaroxaban79$96,327
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol34$40,810
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab13$20,958
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$9,792
Praluent PenAlirocumab14$7,084
Nifedipine ErNifedipine141$4,356
Metoprolol Succinate264$2,915
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate307$2,836
Atorvastatin Calcium238$2,648
Nitroglycerin118$2,040
Prasugrel Hcl32$1,836
Carvedilol165$1,532
Furosemide240$1,102

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$130$180,733199 claims
NovartisEntresto$471$106,56477 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$330$96,32779 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$244$40,81034 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 117 interventional cardiology providers in South Carolina.

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