RxDoctor Payments Data

Francis Gilliam, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Sumter, SCNPI 1891704474

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (42.8%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 35 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 33.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,614 and has fallen 75.6% since, to $1,615 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $35,448.

$18,732in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 388 payments — averaging $48.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$6K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$3K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Novartis$1K
  • Merck$722
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$717
  • plus $4K from 29 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$5,31328%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$5,40029%
  • Food & beverage$8,01943%

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

$18,732 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 58 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$334,751
Medicare patients
1,926
Services billed
6,010

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
EliquisApixaban411$466,376
VyndamaxTafamidis13$291,781
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan221$265,766
XareltoRivaroxaban125$114,072
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol54$61,051
JardianceEmpagliflozin39$53,796
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab49$41,330
MultaqDronedarone Hcl11$20,892
BrilintaTicagrelor17$10,662
Atorvastatin Calcium298$4,696
Metoprolol Succinate314$4,656
Amiodarone Hcl250$4,460
Rosuvastatin Calcium158$2,482
SotalolSotalol Hcl83$2,445
Ranolazine ErRanolazine27$2,189

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, Vyndamax$658$758,157424 claims
NovartisEntresto$1,101$265,766221 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$214$114,072125 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$357$71,71371 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$717$53,79639 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$44$20,89211 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 35th percentile of 58 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina.

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