George Sokos, DO
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Morgantown, WVNPI 1922277235
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 177 payments — averaging $1118.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Endotronix, Inc.$78K
- Medtronic$40K
- Amgen$35K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$22K
- United Therapeutics Corporation$7K
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$5K
- plus $10K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,50033%
- Travel & lodging$3,29424%
- Food & beverage$5,50640%
- Education$4453%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Endotronix, Inc. | 4 | $77,997 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 30 | $39,745 |
| Amgen | 12 | $35,161 |
| Sanofi US Services Inc. | 9 | $21,998 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 9 | $7,435 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 14 | $5,198 |
| Abbott | 21 | $3,513 |
| Eli Lilly | 2 | $1,201 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 10 | $1,195 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $1,121 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $739 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 14 | $705 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 8 | $629 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $356 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $172 |
| Merck | 1 | $148 |
| Novartis | 2 | $94 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $77 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $75 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $73 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $66 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $36 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
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.
- CardioSight$1,427
- FFRct$905
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$900
- CORDELLA PULOMONARY ARTERY PRESSURE SENSOR$760
- Impella$642
- Barostim Neo System$575
- CAMZYOS$139
- OPTIMIZER$138
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$119
- LifeVest$101
How this compares
Too few advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in West Virginiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 230 | $284,668 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 86 | $111,135 |
| EliquisApixaban | 83 | $89,521 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 50 | $46,556 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 18 | $14,178 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 18 | $9,940 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 231 | $4,504 |
| Tacrolimus | 20 | $3,832 |
| Sildenafil Citrate | 23 | $2,763 |
| Eplerenone | 27 | $2,711 |
| Valsartan | 70 | $2,495 |
| Clonidine | 14 | $1,389 |
| Spironolactone | 191 | $1,311 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 151 | $1,309 |
| Ezetimibe | 47 | $1,176 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| NovartisEntresto | $94 | $284,668230 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $18 | $111,13586 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $77 | $89,52183 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $73 | $46,55650 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $15 | $14,17818 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. There are too few advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in West Virginiaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in Morgantown
- Marco CaccamoMorgantown$750K
- Christopher BiancoMorgantown$269K
- Noor ChimaMorgantown$3K
- Carlos Rueda RiosHuntington$102K
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.