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Joseph Poku, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Macon, GANPI 1902980527

Payments from drug & device makers

$130,051in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 562 payments — averaging $231.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$88K
  • Biotronik Inc.$18K
  • Medtronic$6K
  • Pfizer$3K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$3K
  • Abbott$3K
  • plus $8K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,5502%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$85,37566%
  • Travel & lodging$26,41420%
  • Food & beverage$15,68312%
  • Education$290%

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

$130,051 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 93 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$364,532
Medicare patients
643
Services billed
2,876

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
EliquisApixaban575$511,686
XareltoRivaroxaban533$445,784
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan356$358,419
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol371$258,362
JardianceEmpagliflozin252$224,031
OzempicSemaglutide43$69,971
MultaqDronedarone Hcl32$40,901
MounjaroTirzepatide29$30,900
CorlanorIvabradine Hcl33$23,114
VerquvoVericiguat17$21,333
Dofetilide116$17,876
SotalolSotalol Hcl402$8,940
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol17$8,264
Metoprolol Succinate545$6,595
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate14$5,563

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$3,434$511,686575 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$88,394$445,784533 claims
NovartisEntresto$259$358,419356 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$655$258,362371 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Pradaxa$246$226,161263 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$264$69,97143 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$328$40,90132 claims
AmgenCorlanor$111$23,11433 claims
MerckVerquvo$431$21,33317 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 75th percentile of 93 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Georgia.

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