RxDoctor Payments Data

Nelson Gwinn, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Dothan, ALNPI 1922087071

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,085in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 298 payments — averaging $27.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abiomed$2K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$479
  • Medtronic$419
  • plus $1K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$3,23240%
  • Food & beverage$4,83460%
  • Education$190%

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

$8,085 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 292 cardiovascular disease providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,472,215
Medicare patients
2,668
Services billed
19,956

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
EliquisApixaban1,114$1,048,907
XareltoRivaroxaban954$918,795
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan685$698,510
MultaqDronedarone Hcl61$87,785
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol44$36,791
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab38$28,242
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate92$20,294
NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe34$19,166
Metoprolol Succinate1,269$19,004
Ambrisentan12$15,169
Ranolazine ErRanolazine113$14,960
Praluent PenAlirocumab11$12,980
Atorvastatin Calcium1,111$12,833
BrilintaTicagrelor11$12,003
Nebivolol Hcl157$11,544

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$71$1,048,9071,114 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,121$918,795954 claims
NovartisEntresto$82$698,510685 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$47$87,78561 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$71$48,79455 claims
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet$32$19,16634 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 70th percentile of 292 cardiovascular disease providers in Alabama.

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