RxDoctor Payments Data

Eric Chou, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Newport News, VANPI 1982690772

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,164in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 65 payments — averaging $64.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$2K
  • Abiomed$1K
  • Abbott$181
  • Johnson & Johnson$169
  • Livanova USA, Inc.$161
  • Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$125
  • plus $565 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$87121%
  • Food & beverage$3,29379%

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

$4,164 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 176 interventional cardiology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$156,663
Medicare patients
2,490
Services billed
4,315

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
EliquisApixaban201$218,401
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan59$73,137
XareltoRivaroxaban59$67,311
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab34$29,317
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab13$7,178
Praluent PenAlirocumab11$5,416
Metoprolol Succinate226$3,296
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl41$2,677
Ranolazine ErRanolazine29$1,791
Rosuvastatin Calcium137$1,528
Atorvastatin Calcium154$1,499
Carvedilol129$1,236
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate106$1,142
Ezetimibe62$1,073
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate84$748

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$93$218,401201 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$169$67,31159 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 40th percentile of 176 interventional cardiology providers in Virginia.

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