RxDoctor Payments Data

Cyrus Kocherla, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Florence, SCNPI 1841581469

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (51.6%), food and beverage and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 41 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotronik Inc. at 43.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $26,626 and has fallen 69.2% since, to $8,213 in 2025.

$93,978in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 927 payments — averaging $101.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Biotronik Inc.$41K
  • Medtronic$18K
  • Boston Scientific$15K
  • Abbott$6K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$3K
  • plus $9K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$6251%
  • Grants$13,90015%
  • Travel & lodging$48,51752%
  • Food & beverage$30,35332%
  • Education$5831%

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

$93,978 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 58 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$458,369
Medicare patients
1,239
Services billed
6,102

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
EliquisApixaban475$417,054
XareltoRivaroxaban129$108,849
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan85$72,595
Dofetilide403$59,833
JardianceEmpagliflozin55$36,927
MultaqDronedarone Hcl23$28,609
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate49$9,095
SotalolSotalol Hcl248$5,169
Metoprolol Succinate314$4,053
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl117$2,660
PradaxaDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate13$2,514
Amiodarone Hcl93$1,289
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate117$973
Carvedilol106$958
Cephalexin133$857

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$648$417,054475 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$627$108,849129 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,162$72,59585 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Pradaxa$380$39,44168 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$32$28,60923 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 80th percentile of 58 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina.

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