David Isbell
Cardiovascular Disease · Columbia, SCNPI 1083652226
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 117 payments — averaging $20.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$480
- Amgen$312
- Medtronic$297
- Pfizer$225
- Boston Scientific$206
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$128
- plus $734 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,383100%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 31 | $480 |
| Amgen | 20 | $312 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $297 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $225 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $206 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $128 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $121 |
| Merck | 6 | $110 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $102 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $86 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $58 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $20 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- LINQ II$297
How this compares
$2,383 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 257 cardiovascular disease providers in South Carolina.
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Other cardiovascular disease in Columbia
- Ryan MacnevinColumbia$67K
- Lauren HollidayColumbia$14K
- Meghan BusinaroColumbia$11K
- Brent McLaurinAnderson$1.1M
- Robert BiedermanCharleston$801K
- James MerriamGreenville$728K
- Vipul ShahLancaster$488K
- Arthur EberlyGreenville$438K
- Gregory SanGreenville$429K
- Naresh MoriRock Hill$408K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.