RxDoctor Payments Data

Jay Gaucher, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Greenville, SCNPI 1164408225

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,008in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $17.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Atricure, Inc.$152
  • Novartis$126
  • Medtronic$124
  • AstraZeneca$85
  • Johnson & Johnson$71
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$65
  • plus $385 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,008100%

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

$1,008 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 257 cardiovascular disease providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$77,647
Medicare patients
763
Services billed
1,153

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
EliquisApixaban184$156,106
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab21$22,018
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan22$21,153
XareltoRivaroxaban19$19,411
Praluent PenAlirocumab17$14,003
Rosuvastatin Calcium78$1,546
Atorvastatin Calcium115$1,466
Metoprolol Succinate109$1,288
Losartan Potassium65$732
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl11$487
Warfarin Sodium20$487
Torsemide11$447
Metoprolol Tartrate56$381
Flecainide Acetate11$364
Carvedilol44$333

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
NovartisEntresto$126$21,15322 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$71$19,41119 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 257 cardiovascular disease providers in South Carolina.

Other cardiovascular disease in Greenville

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