Joshua Payne, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Charleston, SCNPI 1912283102
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 694 payments — averaging $138.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotronik Inc.$34K
- Abbott$26K
- Medtronic$20K
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Cardiofocus, Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- plus $5K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,1884%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,25614%
- Grants$13,40117%
- Travel & lodging$25,15931%
- Food & beverage$27,71534%
- Education$3460%
General payments by program year
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Biotronik Inc. | 153 | $33,998 |
| Abbott | 178 | $25,854 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 99 | $20,063 |
| Boston Scientific | 50 | $7,040 |
| Cardiofocus, Inc. | 20 | $2,152 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 13 | $1,571 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 57 | $1,360 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 49 | $1,324 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 17 | $945 |
| Acutus Medical, Inc. | 15 | $398 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 20 | $293 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $197 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $180 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $161 |
| ZOLL Respicardia, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $123 |
| Catheter Precision Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Merck | 3 | $57 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $54 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $41 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $36 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
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.
- BioMonitor$9,447
- Solia$9,191
- Rivacor 7 DR-T$5,571
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$5,571
- Edora 8 DR-T$5,441
- Acticor$4,751
- Edora$4,751
- Rivacor$4,751
- AVEIR$2,434
- ADVISOR$1,575
- HeartLight System$1,505
- Carto 3$1,479
- ACCENT$1,352
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,189
- Micra$1,002
- GENERAL TACHY$901
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$892
- Sentus$871
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$653
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$637
How this compares
$96,103 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 58 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina.
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Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 67 | $57,697 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 24 | $23,212 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 15 | $17,582 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 97 | $1,432 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 101 | $1,053 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 28 | $925 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 59 | $381 |
| Carvedilol | 16 | $352 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 13 | $135 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 25 | $64 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $36 | $57,69767 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 65th percentile of 58 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in South Carolina.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Charleston
- Frank CuocoCharleston$2.8M
- Jeffrey WinterfieldCharleston$2.2M
- Michael GoldCharleston$359K
- Anne KromanCharleston$316K
- Rachel KaplanCharleston$151K
- Swati RaoCharleston$61K
- John WhartonCharleston$44K
- Nicole CainCharleston$6K
- Lanier JacksonCharleston$4K
- Rory DowdCharleston$98
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.