RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Austin, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Jacksonville Beach, FLNPI 1508178567

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,985in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 250 payments — averaging $47.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$5K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$1K
  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • Abbott$920
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$589
  • Johnson & Johnson$470
  • plus $3K from 33 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$3,45029%
  • Food & beverage$8,45871%
  • Education$761%

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

$11,985 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 249 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$539,363
Medicare patients
2,808
Services billed
7,112

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
EliquisApixaban264$333,762
XareltoRivaroxaban70$66,183
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan33$57,585
Dofetilide103$24,554
Flecainide Acetate122$5,699
Metoprolol Succinate321$3,869
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl61$1,750
Amiodarone Hcl79$1,442
SotalolSotalol Hcl65$1,400
Pantoprazole Sodium23$331
Carvedilol45$316
Verapamil ErVerapamil Hcl11$291
Losartan Potassium31$242
Atorvastatin Calcium42$234
Potassium Chloride11$221

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$176$333,762264 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$470$66,18370 claims
NovartisEntresto$37$57,58533 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 20th percentile of 249 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Florida.

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