RxDoctor Payments Data

Ravina Balchandani, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Hilton Head, SCNPI 1669581047

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,723in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 152 payments — averaging $37.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Terumo Medical Corporation$1K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$831
  • Welch Allyn$514
  • Chiesi USA, Inc.$511
  • Novo Nordisk$321
  • AstraZeneca$306
  • plus $2K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$4758%
  • Travel & lodging$1,05718%
  • Food & beverage$3,40760%
  • Education$2324%
  • Gifts$5149%
  • Other$381%

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

$5,723 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 257 cardiovascular disease providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,328,135
Medicare patients
1,339
Services billed
9,921

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
EliquisApixaban579$672,277
MounjaroTirzepatide321$544,329
OzempicSemaglutide208$330,242
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol288$299,058
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab208$265,277
JardianceEmpagliflozin187$235,425
RybelsusSemaglutide83$177,914
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan140$177,410
XareltoRivaroxaban95$126,492
CamzyosMavacamten13$102,623
Praluent PenAlirocumab37$43,494
BrilintaTicagrelor41$40,356
MultaqDronedarone Hcl25$26,553
EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil29$12,505
Metoprolol Succinate784$11,695

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$85$672,277579 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$16$544,329321 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$321$508,156291 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$306$339,414329 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$82$235,425187 claims
NovartisEntresto$18$177,410140 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$84$126,49295 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Camzyos$831$102,62313 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi$12$12,50529 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 55th percentile of 257 cardiovascular disease providers in South Carolina.

Other cardiovascular disease in Hilton Head

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