RxDoctor Payments Data

Rodney Rhinehart, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Columbia, SCNPI 1932108610

Payments from drug & device makers

$719in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $12.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$284
  • Amgen$214
  • Pfizer$86
  • Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.$27
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$23
  • Cardinal Health 200 LLC$22
  • plus $65 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$719100%

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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25

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

$719 in reported general payments places this provider in the 0th percentile of 117 interventional cardiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$595,411
Medicare patients
1,550
Services billed
9,075

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
EliquisApixaban803$750,834
XareltoRivaroxaban273$227,537
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan212$205,051
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab96$115,544
MultaqDronedarone Hcl29$43,899
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol63$43,242
Praluent PenAlirocumab39$35,530
JardianceEmpagliflozin49$34,015
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab13$15,101
EdarbiAzilsartan Medoxomil32$14,169
Ranolazine ErRanolazine150$14,151
Nebivolol Hcl266$12,539
OzempicSemaglutide12$9,861
Ezetimibe162$8,909
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol11$8,659

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$86$750,834803 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$12$227,537273 claims
NovartisEntresto$284$205,051212 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 0th percentile of 117 interventional cardiology providers in South Carolina.

Other interventional cardiology in Columbia

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