RxDoctor Payments Data

Shaun Colburn, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Kingsport, TNNPI 1235511932

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — grants (53.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 38.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $10,446 and has fallen 63.5% since, to $3,818 in 2025.

$36,230in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 262 payments — averaging $138.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$14K
  • Boston Scientific$13K
  • Abbott$4K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$2K
  • Biotronik Inc.$1K
  • Philips North America LLC$699
  • plus $2K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Grants$19,52754%
  • Travel & lodging$8,37323%
  • Food & beverage$7,08420%
  • Education$1,2463%

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

$36,230 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 82 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$207,737
Medicare patients
1,409
Services billed
3,439

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
EliquisApixaban168$129,976
XareltoRivaroxaban46$38,309
Dofetilide12$9,367
Amiodarone Hcl109$2,617
Flecainide Acetate38$1,768
Metoprolol Succinate124$1,417
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl31$624
SotalolSotalol Hcl15$376
Warfarin Sodium13$299
Metoprolol Tartrate48$294
Digoxin11$230
Atorvastatin Calcium14$114
Carvedilol11$59

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$30$38,30946 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 80th percentile of 82 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Tennessee.

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