RxDoctor Payments Data

Peter Rodgers-Fischl

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Charleston, WVNPI 1821450198

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,157 of the $8,239 with a category attached, or 62.6%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Angiodynamics, Inc. at 27.9% of the total.

$8,239in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 83 payments — averaging $99.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Angiodynamics, Inc.$2K
  • Atricure, Inc.$1K
  • Artivion, Inc.$1K
  • Philips North America LLC$946
  • Edwards Lifesciences$688
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$430
  • plus $2K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,65232%
  • Food & beverage$5,15763%
  • Education$4305%

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

$8,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 30 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in West Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$104,220
Medicare patients
126
Services billed
238

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen44$130

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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