RxDoctor Payments Data

Gerald Bauknight, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Columbia, SCNPI 1144279084

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,353 of the $10,040 with a category attached, or 63.3%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 56.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,214 and has fallen 64.7% since, to $1,490 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $35,448.

$10,040in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 127 payments — averaging $79.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$6K
  • Abbott$3K
  • Boston Scientific$880
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$290
  • Novartis$198
  • Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$125
  • plus $86 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$6,35363%
  • Food & beverage$3,68737%

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

$10,040 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 58 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$506,253
Medicare patients
835
Services billed
6,103

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
EliquisApixaban388$342,151
XareltoRivaroxaban63$47,955
JardianceEmpagliflozin40$47,880
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan26$29,959
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab14$13,572
Metoprolol Succinate153$2,589
Digoxin85$1,971
Flecainide Acetate38$1,832
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl41$1,426
Losartan Potassium99$1,092
Rosuvastatin Calcium23$790
Spironolactone62$768
Ramipril17$758
Carvedilol83$745
Atorvastatin Calcium60$666

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$13$342,151388 claims
NovartisEntresto$198$29,95926 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 58 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Columbia

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