RxDoctor Payments Data

Samuel Jones, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1578632550

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,247in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $43.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$591
  • Abbott$447
  • Atricure, Inc.$328
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$265
  • Novartis$263
  • Boston Scientific$76
  • plus $276 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$40%
  • Food & beverage$2,243100%

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

$2,247 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 82 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$326,936
Medicare patients
1,269
Services billed
5,115

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
EliquisApixaban521$558,682
XareltoRivaroxaban81$94,196
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan58$70,576
Dofetilide86$30,128
JardianceEmpagliflozin24$21,185
Flecainide Acetate214$12,364
Metoprolol Succinate243$5,030
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl112$3,480
SotalolSotalol Hcl139$2,890
Amiodarone Hcl126$2,675
Valsartan37$1,855
Potassium Chloride72$1,709
Carvedilol180$1,698
Mexiletine Hcl23$1,502
Atorvastatin Calcium88$1,491

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$14$558,682521 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$22$94,19681 claims
NovartisEntresto$263$70,57658 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$47$21,18524 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 15th percentile of 82 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Tennessee.

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