RxDoctor Payments Data

Hiren Patel, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Athens, GANPI 1740523778

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,276in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 79 payments — averaging $28.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$411
  • Edwards Lifesciences$409
  • Abbott$320
  • Abiomed$182
  • Johnson & Johnson$177
  • Stryker$163
  • plus $615 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$552%
  • Food & beverage$1,93085%
  • Education$29113%

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

$2,276 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 218 interventional cardiology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$144,449
Medicare patients
524
Services billed
1,783

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
EliquisApixaban361$338,685
XareltoRivaroxaban21$28,987
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan17$23,111
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol18$17,754
BrilintaTicagrelor14$11,046
Ranolazine ErRanolazine36$6,387
Metoprolol Succinate323$3,583
Atorvastatin Calcium355$3,193
Nifedipine ErNifedipine90$2,016
Carvedilol233$1,835
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl58$1,640
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate134$1,310
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate92$1,121
Losartan Potassium133$1,082
Hydralazine Hcl53$779

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$51$338,685361 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$177$28,98721 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$32$28,80032 claims
NovartisEntresto$46$23,11117 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 10th percentile of 218 interventional cardiology providers in Georgia.

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