RxDoctor Payments Data

Joel Simon, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Lexington, KYNPI 1861751950

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.9%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 35 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 30.0% of the total.

$22,674in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 374 payments — averaging $60.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$7K
  • Abbott$5K
  • Medtronic$4K
  • Biotronik Inc.$1K
  • Atricure, Inc.$798
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$776
  • plus $4K from 29 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$5002%
  • Grants$9014%
  • Travel & lodging$7,58433%
  • Food & beverage$12,66956%
  • Education$9604%
  • Entertainment$590%

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

$22,674 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 57 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$257,243
Medicare patients
1,049
Services billed
4,369

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
EliquisApixaban626$623,660
XareltoRivaroxaban156$171,649
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan51$40,100
Dofetilide132$22,441
Flecainide Acetate346$11,507
SotalolSotalol Hcl172$3,357
Metoprolol Succinate163$1,971
Midodrine Hcl13$1,588
Mexiletine Hcl15$1,476
Dilt-XrDiltiazem Hcl28$1,066
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl57$1,052
Amiodarone Hcl78$963
Metoprolol Tartrate176$886
Valsartan21$554
Sotalol AfSotalol Hcl32$552

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$508$623,660626 claims
NovartisEntresto$77$40,10051 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 55th percentile of 57 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Kentucky.

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