RxDoctor Payments Data

Patrick Looser, MD

Interventional Cardiology · North Charleston, SCNPI 1508165291

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,871in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 368 payments — averaging $24.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$3K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$617
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$540
  • Novartis$402
  • Edwards Lifesciences$387
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$375
  • plus $3K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$99311%
  • Food & beverage$7,86889%
  • Education$100%

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

$8,871 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 117 interventional cardiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$281,403
Medicare patients
871
Services billed
2,640

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
EliquisApixaban201$208,293
JardianceEmpagliflozin72$86,421
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan75$81,549
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab39$46,066
XareltoRivaroxaban29$41,683
MultaqDronedarone Hcl25$26,622
BrilintaTicagrelor18$13,244
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab16$8,685
Dofetilide14$4,032
Metoprolol Succinate300$3,949
Ranolazine ErRanolazine24$3,243
Atorvastatin Calcium219$2,571
Clonidine13$2,051
Valsartan50$1,810
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate133$1,641

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$146$208,293201 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$375$86,42172 claims
NovartisEntresto$402$81,54975 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$195$41,68329 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$126$26,62225 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$288$13,24418 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 40th percentile of 117 interventional cardiology providers in South Carolina.

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