RxDoctor Payments Data

James Abraham, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Covington, GANPI 1205882057

Payments from drug & device makers

$546in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $21.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$73
  • Novartis$65
  • Amgen$51
  • Scpharmaceuticals Inc.$46
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$40
  • Heartflow, Inc.$38
  • plus $235 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$52596%
  • Education$224%

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.

How this compares

$546 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$204,950
Medicare patients
626
Services billed
2,684

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
EliquisApixaban597$713,803
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan134$151,233
XareltoRivaroxaban114$139,772
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol36$26,935
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab14$22,485
JardianceEmpagliflozin16$18,974
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate42$12,899
Ranolazine ErRanolazine62$5,690
Metoprolol Succinate506$4,558
Flecainide Acetate59$3,443
Atorvastatin Calcium382$3,130
Rosuvastatin Calcium232$2,970
Amiodarone Hcl49$2,363
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate192$2,300
Losartan Potassium273$2,215

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$18$713,803597 claims
NovartisEntresto$65$151,233134 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$14$139,772114 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$20$26,93536 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 20th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

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