George Black, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Greenville, SCNPI 1922427780
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 567 payments — averaging $61.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$18K
- Abbott$5K
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Biotronik Inc.$3K
- Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC$2K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$2K
- plus $3K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5004%
- Grants$10,00029%
- Travel & lodging$8,53924%
- Food & beverage$14,40241%
- Education$4481%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 247 | $17,560 |
| Abbott | 92 | $4,679 |
| Boston Scientific | 55 | $3,687 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 7 | $2,913 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $1,631 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 98 | $1,597 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $984 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $357 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $307 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 12 | $266 |
| Novartis | 8 | $153 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $125 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $116 |
| ZOLL Respicardia, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $47 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| Merck | 1 | $31 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $17 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $17 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
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 - THERAPIES$1,784
- AVEIR$1,639
- Sotalol Hydrochloride$1,631
- Carto 3$1,262
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$1,106
- Micra$770
- ENSITE PRECISION$762
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$758
- WATCHMAN FLX$546
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$451
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$419
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$214
- ENSITE$174
- Abre$159
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$155
- QUADRA ASSURA$146
- EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$135
- WATCHMAN Access System$134
- Farapulse$131
- Iforia 5 VR-T DX$131
How this compares
$34,888 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 58 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina.
See all clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina →
Medicare billing
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 | 165 | $159,627 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 37 | $31,160 |
| CorlanorIvabradine Hcl | 15 | $9,408 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 149 | $2,156 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 65 | $2,064 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 67 | $659 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 15 | $458 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 13 | $220 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 46 | $217 |
| Carvedilol | 12 | $113 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 17 | $95 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 12 | $89 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 16 | $79 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $19 | $159,627165 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $18 | $31,16037 claims |
| AmgenCorlanor | $16 | $9,40815 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 58 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Greenville
- Jeffrey SenfieldGreenville$517K
- Matthew SellersGreenville$223K
- Joseph ManfrediGreenville$213K
- Peter NetzlerGreenville$185K
- Adam BarnettGreenville$73K
- Zain GowaniGreenville$36K
- Donald RubensteinGreenville$3K
- Lawrence WestonGreenville$137
- Frank CuocoCharleston$2.8M
- Jeffrey WinterfieldCharleston$2.2M
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.