RxDoctor Payments Data

Charles Neckman, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Athens, GANPI 1720054349

Payments from drug & device makers

$526in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 27 payments — averaging $19.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$222
  • Novartis$105
  • Pfizer$40
  • Abbott$35
  • Medtronic$30
  • Nevro Corp.$29
  • plus $66 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$526100%

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.

How this compares

$526 in reported general payments places this provider in the 5th percentile of 218 interventional cardiology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$101,804
Medicare patients
432
Services billed
1,149

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
EliquisApixaban206$269,826
XareltoRivaroxaban136$131,835
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan15$13,323
Atorvastatin Calcium364$3,309
Ranolazine ErRanolazine26$2,800
Dofetilide19$2,066
Potassium Chloride64$1,505
Rosuvastatin Calcium117$1,417
Losartan Potassium180$1,297
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate114$1,129
Metoprolol Succinate149$1,107
Metoprolol Tartrate187$1,088
Carvedilol123$978
Nitroglycerin52$793
Amiodarone Hcl93$723

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$40$269,826206 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$28$131,835136 claims
NovartisEntresto$105$13,32315 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 5th percentile of 218 interventional cardiology providers in Georgia.

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