Raquel Bennett-Gittens, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Columbus, GANPI 1114191871
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 426 payments — averaging $25.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- AstraZeneca$919
- Boehringer Ingelheim$780
- Lilly USA, LLC$747
- Bayer$703
- plus $4K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,58414%
- Food & beverage$9,45086%
- Other$160%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 47 | $3,274 |
| Novo Nordisk | 52 | $1,006 |
| AstraZeneca | 50 | $919 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 40 | $780 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 55 | $747 |
| Bayer | 29 | $703 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $683 |
| GSK | 36 | $572 |
| Amgen | 21 | $437 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 4 | $282 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $247 |
| Merck | 11 | $179 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $136 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $118 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $97 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $84 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $70 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 4 | $63 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Novartis | 2 | $32 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $30 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $15 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Alvogen Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- ENSITE PRECISION$1,846
- CARDIOMEMS$164
- Micra$136
- CardioMEMS HF System$133
- Watchman$132
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$126
- MitraClip System$125
- WATCHMAN Access System$123
- EMBLEM$116
- Repatha$105
How this compares
$11,050 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 476 | $493,523 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 127 | $171,418 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 79 | $105,672 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 30 | $49,089 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 28 | $46,843 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 49 | $41,573 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 23 | $29,806 |
| NexletolBempedoic Acid | 16 | $16,009 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 16 | $9,419 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 11 | $8,217 |
| Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate | 25 | $6,694 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 56 | $6,334 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 188 | $6,160 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 542 | $6,033 |
| Clonidine | 31 | $4,352 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $97 | $493,523476 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $247 | $171,418127 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $32 | $105,67279 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta | $919 | $50,99265 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $51 | $49,08930 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $780 | $46,84328 claims |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexletol | $118 | $16,00916 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $179 | $8,21711 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 80th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.
Other cardiovascular disease in Columbus
- Hunter ChampionColumbus$1.5M
- Alonzo JonesColumbus$414K
- Hiren ShahColumbus$166K
- Narendra SinghJohns Creek$5.4M
- Elizabeth OfiliAtlanta$4.5M
- Sanjay YadavAtlanta$3.7M
- Arshed QuyyumiAtlanta$3.4M
- Naresh ParikhNorcross$2.8M
- Nicolas ChronosEatonton$2.4M
- Bobby KhanAtlanta$1.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.