RxDoctor Payments Data

David Brown

Cardiovascular Disease · Plano, TXNPI 1194717348

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (36.7%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 74.9% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $14,009 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $100 in 2024.

$20,431in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $329.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Edwards Lifesciences$15K
  • Medtronic$5K
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$127
  • Harrow Eye, LLC$100
  • Novartis$38
  • Tactile Systems Technology Inc$33
  • plus $103 from 6 others
$2,165,489in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 274 payments — averaging $7903.24 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.

  • Edwards Lifesciences$1.3M
  • Boston Scientific$327K
  • Medtronic$214K
  • Abbott$149K
  • Roche TCRC, Inc.$53K
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$51K
  • plus $50K from 4 others
$506,403in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $29,788 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

  • Access Vascular Inc$304K
  • Heartflow, Inc.$203K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$7,50037%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$7,00034%
  • Travel & lodging$3,24916%
  • Food & beverage$2,68213%

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

$20,431 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,515 cardiovascular disease providers in Texas.

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