Has Eric Black-Maier, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $29,238 in general payments to Eric Black-Maier, MD across 99 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Eric Black-Maier, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Eric Black-Maier, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Eric Black-Maier, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Atlanta, GANPI 1225456775

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $26,250 of the $29,238 with a category attached, or 89.8%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 59.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $11,372 and has fallen 95.6% since, to $503 in 2025.

$29,238in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 99 payments — averaging $295.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$17K
Medtronic$12K
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$130
Baxter Healthcare$34
Biosense Webster, Inc.$22
Novartis$20

What the payments were for

Grants$26,25090%
Travel & lodging$6542%
Food & beverage$1,9757%
Education$3591%

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
Boston Scientific	80	$17,356
Medtronic(2 entities)	13	$11,676
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$130
Baxter Healthcare	2	$34
Biosense Webster, Inc.	1	$22
Novartis	1	$20

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.

GENERAL BRADY$10,000
EMBLEM S ICD ELECTRODE DELIVERY SYSTEM$5,000
GENERAL - THERAPIES$815
Adapta$158
EMBLEM$122
Micra$118
LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor$105
LifeVest$101

How this compares

$29,238 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 93 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$150,672

Medicare patients

1,569

Services billed

2,382

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

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban	45	$41,160
Ranolazine ErRanolazine	52	$2,417
Metoprolol Succinate	123	$1,567
Amiodarone Hcl	29	$192
Metoprolol Tartrate	12	$156
SotalolSotalol Hcl	15	$139
Spironolactone	52	$132
Furosemide	11	$50

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Atlanta

David DelurgioAtlanta$695K
Thomas DeeringAtlanta$237K
Michael LloydAtlanta$221K
Mikhael El-ChamiAtlanta$172K
Sandeep GoyalAtlanta$153K
Bruce StamblerAtlanta$91K
Stacy WestermanAtlanta$60K
Ashish BhimaniAtlanta$51K
Aaron RichardsonAtlanta$51K
Devinder DhindsaAtlanta$47K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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