RxDoctor Payments Data

Rashmi Hottigoudar, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Powell, TNNPI 1093978751

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,443 of the $8,663 with a category attached, or 62.8%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 43.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,385 and has fallen 83.8% since, to $548 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $12,690.

$8,663in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 125 payments — averaging $69.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$4K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Atricure, Inc.$586
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$236
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$176
  • plus $573 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$5,44363%
  • Food & beverage$3,22037%

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

$8,663 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 82 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$282,336
Medicare patients
484
Services billed
4,174

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
EliquisApixaban456$349,268
XareltoRivaroxaban144$128,498
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan39$40,385
Dofetilide268$28,604
SotalolSotalol Hcl908$11,486
Flecainide Acetate228$7,265
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate11$3,152
Amiodarone Hcl273$2,990
Metoprolol Succinate268$2,585
Mexiletine Hcl37$2,298
PaceroneAmiodarone Hcl12$2,028
Potassium Chloride119$1,387
Atorvastatin Calcium101$1,263
Midodrine Hcl21$1,078
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl53$965

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$124$349,268456 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$20$128,498144 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 82 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Tennessee.

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