RxDoctor Payments Data

Rajiv Swamy, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Sanford, NCNPI 1396923793

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (43.5%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 42 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 54.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $58,699 and has fallen 70.6% since, to $17,281 in 2025. Among interventional cardiology clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$170,865in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 895 payments — averaging $190.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$94K
  • Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$48K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$8K
  • Reflow Medical Inc$5K
  • Veryan Medical Incorporated$4K
  • Cook Incorporated$3K
  • plus $9K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$62,98037%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$74,27343%
  • Travel & lodging$7,7185%
  • Food & beverage$25,69615%
  • Education$1990%

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

$170,865 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 180 interventional cardiology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$223,009
Medicare patients
444
Services billed
2,118

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
EliquisApixaban130$108,346
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab117$102,009
XareltoRivaroxaban49$35,859
BrilintaTicagrelor32$23,301
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$22,012
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate136$1,461
Metoprolol Succinate81$1,283
Atorvastatin Calcium122$1,150
Carvedilol92$595
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate23$504
Rosuvastatin Calcium31$501
Torsemide14$468
Furosemide77$463
Losartan Potassium40$399
Lovastatin18$398

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$171$108,346130 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$266$35,85949 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$513$23,30132 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$1,282$22,01221 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 90th percentile of 180 interventional cardiology providers in North Carolina.

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