RxDoctor Payments Data

Ricky McCullough, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Eastman, GANPI 1245469519

Payments from drug & device makers

$782in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $14.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$172
  • Novartis$166
  • Pfizer$68
  • AstraZeneca$63
  • Philips North America LLC$53
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$35
  • plus $225 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$782100%

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.

How this compares

$782 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$423,691
Medicare patients
3,366
Services billed
8,003

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
EliquisApixaban324$262,904
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan114$113,298
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol87$64,246
XareltoRivaroxaban17$13,900
JardianceEmpagliflozin15$8,512
Midodrine Hcl31$3,918
Metoprolol Succinate184$2,624
Atorvastatin Calcium225$2,033
Ranolazine ErRanolazine17$1,739
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate143$1,066
Carvedilol134$974
Diltiazem 12hr ErDiltiazem Hcl17$958
Flecainide Acetate24$709
Losartan Potassium67$685
Amiodarone Hcl35$671

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$68$262,904324 claims
NovartisEntresto$166$113,298114 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$63$64,24687 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$23$13,90017 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$15$8,51215 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 30th percentile of 640 cardiovascular disease providers in Georgia.

Other cardiovascular disease in Eastman

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