RxDoctor Payments Data

Joshua Beckman, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Nashville, TNNPI 1790736759

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $97,588 of the $106,358 with a category attached, or 91.8%. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.8%. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$106,358in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $1251.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$22K
  • Sanofi US Services Inc.$16K
  • Amgen$13K
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$11K
  • Novartis$9K
  • GSK$7K
  • plus $28K from 11 others
$58,281in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 177 payments — averaging $329.27 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Novo Nordisk AS$25K
  • Boston Scientific$17K
  • Novartis Pharma AG$16K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$97,58892%
  • Travel & lodging$6,5226%
  • Food & beverage$2,2482%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Merck20$22,103
Sanofi US Services Inc.1$16,178
Amgen20$13,283
Janssen Research & Development, LLC2$10,500
Novartis4$8,997
GSK10$6,995
AstraZeneca8$6,346
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC2$4,500
Novo Nordisk4$3,925
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC1$3,155
Regeneron5$3,094
Astrazeneca UK Limited2$2,627
Johnson & Johnson1$1,740
Bayer1$1,350
Medtronic1$1,320
Boston Scientific2$201
Collaborative Care Diagnostics, LLC1$45

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

$106,358 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$22,825
Medicare patients
92
Services billed
142

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
XareltoRivaroxaban59$52,370
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$11,167
Metoprolol Succinate71$1,180
Chlorthalidone31$393
Rosuvastatin Calcium30$354
Losartan Potassium52$324
Atorvastatin Calcium41$234
Lisinopril13$182
Warfarin Sodium16$60
Carvedilol12$46
Amlodipine Besylate18$45

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,740$52,37059 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 95th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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