RxDoctor Payments Data

Donald Siddoway, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Columbia, SCNPI 1235392093

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.3%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 54.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,035 and has fallen 81.3% since, to $381 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $35,448.

$7,568in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 104 payments — averaging $72.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$4K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$655
  • Boston Scientific$617
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$407
  • Atricure, Inc.$219
  • plus $471 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$7009%
  • Travel & lodging$2,60634%
  • Food & beverage$4,26256%

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

$7,568 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 58 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$345,442
Medicare patients
1,577
Services billed
5,483

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
EliquisApixaban35$34,695
Metoprolol Succinate42$941
Flecainide Acetate15$807
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl12$193
SotalolSotalol Hcl12$189

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Columbia

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Where these figures come from

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