RxDoctor Payments Data

Larry Breeding, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Kingsport, TNNPI 1154354033

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,991in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 107 payments — averaging $18.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$311
  • Pfizer$304
  • Novartis$296
  • Biotronik Inc.$167
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$120
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$74
  • plus $720 from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,983100%
  • Education$80%

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

$1,991 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$69,456
Medicare patients
477
Services billed
903

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
EliquisApixaban171$181,928
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan102$101,777
XareltoRivaroxaban39$44,957
BrilintaTicagrelor41$39,407
JardianceEmpagliflozin13$9,012
Metoprolol Succinate179$1,413
Amiodarone Hcl23$1,092
Nifedipine ErNifedipine18$1,045
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate126$970
Ranolazine ErRanolazine14$935
Rosuvastatin Calcium79$789
Nitroglycerin44$608
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate92$599
Carvedilol112$419
Spironolactone86$412

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$304$181,928171 claims
NovartisEntresto$296$101,777102 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$62$44,95739 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$73$39,40741 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$31$9,01213 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 45th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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