RxDoctor Payments Data

Ryan Tedford, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Charleston, SCNPI 1104972751

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $409,628 of the $528,086 with a category attached, or 77.6%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merck at 46.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $136,085, 4.1 times the $33,274 reported in 2019. Among advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$528,086in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 504 payments — averaging $1047.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$247K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$139K
  • Abbott$55K
  • Abiomed$19K
  • Medtronic$18K
  • Endotronix, Inc.$15K
  • plus $35K from 13 others
$62,267in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $15,567 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Medtronic$56K
  • Abbott$6K
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$520

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$409,62878%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$35,9917%
  • Travel & lodging$69,45113%
  • Food & beverage$12,9422%
  • Education$730%

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

$528,086 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 30 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$54,354
Medicare patients
180
Services billed
679

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
VyndamaxTafamidis31$691,064
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan320$300,819
JardianceEmpagliflozin300$254,042
EliquisApixaban80$85,436
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol81$58,291
OzempicSemaglutide17$16,436
Posaconazole11$14,675
Atovaquone17$13,521
XareltoRivaroxaban19$13,198
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium11$7,968
Metoprolol Succinate119$1,799
Eplerenone34$1,602
Spironolactone221$1,602
Bumetanide39$1,502
Mycophenolate Mofetil13$1,411

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
NovartisEntresto$231$300,819320 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$92$254,042300 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 95th percentile of 30 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in South Carolina.

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