RxDoctor Payments Data

George Staton, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Valdosta, GANPI 1215990098

Payments from drug & device makers

$633in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $39.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$425
  • Opsens Inc.$43
  • Johnson & Johnson$41
  • Novartis$29
  • Pfizer$27
  • AbbVie$19
  • plus $48 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$28044%
  • Food & beverage$32952%
  • Education$244%

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

$633 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$762,230
Medicare patients
2,239
Services billed
12,712

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
EliquisApixaban1,201$987,955
XareltoRivaroxaban276$219,997
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan92$95,452
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab35$19,852
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol18$13,097
Metoprolol Succinate1,402$13,085
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate1,414$11,946
Flecainide Acetate389$10,262
Amiodarone Hcl348$7,878
Ranolazine ErRanolazine132$7,434
SotalolSotalol Hcl458$7,030
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab12$6,839
Praluent PenAlirocumab13$6,312
Atorvastatin Calcium894$5,552
Metoprolol Tartrate891$4,557

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$27$987,9551,201 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$41$219,997276 claims
NovartisEntresto$29$95,45292 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 25th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

Other cardiovascular disease in Valdosta

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