RxDoctor Payments Data

Samuel Lawson, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Jackson, MSNPI 1578582417

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,918in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 227 payments — averaging $17.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$1K
  • Novartis$842
  • Boston Scientific$467
  • Merck$285
  • Pfizer$201
  • Amgen$192
  • plus $875 from 21 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,918100%

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

$3,918 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 144 cardiovascular disease providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$227,338
Medicare patients
1,515
Services billed
4,531

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
EliquisApixaban709$534,518
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan218$230,067
XareltoRivaroxaban152$108,339
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol65$60,382
JardianceEmpagliflozin23$26,515
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab11$13,273
Praluent PenAlirocumab16$7,587
Metoprolol Succinate635$6,660
Ranolazine ErRanolazine54$4,411
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate336$3,116
Rosuvastatin Calcium244$2,384
Atorvastatin Calcium290$2,111
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate209$1,857
Diltiazem 12hr ErDiltiazem Hcl12$1,681
Digoxin136$1,552

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$201$534,518709 claims
NovartisEntresto$842$230,067218 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$40$108,339152 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$12$60,38265 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$60$26,51523 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 45th percentile of 144 cardiovascular disease providers in Mississippi.

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