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Brett Atwater, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Fairfax, VANPI 1053376194

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,160,883in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 601 payments — averaging $1931.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$647K
  • Abbott$295K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$112K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$47K
  • Boston Scientific$17K
  • Pfizer$15K
  • plus $28K from 12 others
$26,838in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $1677.34 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.

  • Medtronic$27K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$121,40038%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$136,49443%
  • Travel & lodging$44,20614%
  • Food & beverage$17,2245%
  • Education$960%

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

$1,160,883 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 90 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$190,251
Medicare patients
346
Services billed
1,079

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
EliquisApixaban29$29,898
MultaqDronedarone Hcl21$21,744
Amiodarone Hcl13$955
Metoprolol Succinate29$375

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$14,600$29,89829 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 95th percentile of 90 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Virginia.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Fairfax

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