RxDoctor Payments Data

Sheldon Litwin, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Charleston, SCNPI 1861447989

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $78,496 of the $86,264 with a category attached, or 91.0%. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Novo Nordisk at 45.5% of the total.

$86,264in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $1797.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$39K
  • Cvrx, Inc.$38K
  • Eli Lilly$9K
  • Edwards Lifesciences$483
  • Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.$21
$1,063,295in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $24,166 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.

  • Eli Lilly$747K
  • AstraZeneca$234K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$47K
  • Medtronic$18K
  • Novartis$11K
  • Cvrx, Inc.$6K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$78,49691%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$6891%
  • Travel & lodging$5,5106%
  • Food & beverage$1,5692%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Novo Nordisk12$39,263
Cvrx, Inc.10$37,735
Eli Lilly22$8,761
Edwards Lifesciences3$483
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.1$21

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

$86,264 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 30 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$90,566
Medicare patients
826
Services billed
1,647

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin162$148,621
EliquisApixaban61$52,298
MounjaroTirzepatide43$49,625
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol59$46,613
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab25$40,054
WegovySemaglutide25$39,849
XareltoRivaroxaban31$30,667
OzempicSemaglutide29$29,338
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan24$28,635
Icosapent Ethyl13$4,725
Spironolactone250$2,101
Bumetanide58$1,837
Amiodarone Hcl38$1,704
Dofetilide16$1,113
Metoprolol Succinate79$994

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
Novo NordiskWegovy, Ozempic$39,263$69,18754 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 75th percentile of 30 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in South Carolina.

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