RxDoctor Payments Data

Shuchita Gupta, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Augusta, GANPI 1679773642

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $834 of the $947 with a category attached, or 88.1%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 34.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $212 and has fallen 79.2% since, to $44 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $8,076.

$947in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 45 payments — averaging $21.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$329
  • AstraZeneca$113
  • Pfizer$82
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$59
  • Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$55
  • Scpharmaceuticals Inc.$45
  • plus $264 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$83488%
  • Education$11312%

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

$947 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 40 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$156,475
Medicare patients
312
Services billed
1,639

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
VyndamaxTafamidis75$1,707,045
UptraviSelexipag56$1,353,446
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan511$613,594
JardianceEmpagliflozin327$368,032
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol358$350,801
AdempasRiociguat24$335,312
OpsumitMacitentan18$227,669
EliquisApixaban238$225,603
CamzyosMavacamten13$92,327
XareltoRivaroxaban22$27,049
VerquvoVericiguat27$24,050
MounjaroTirzepatide12$12,315
Metoprolol Succinate648$10,664
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol21$10,493
Midodrine Hcl126$10,053

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
PfizerVyndamax, Eliquis$82$1,932,649313 claims
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Uptravi, Opsumit$59$1,581,11674 claims
NovartisEntresto$40$613,594511 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$19$368,032327 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$113$350,801358 claims
BayerAdempas$29$335,31224 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Camzyos$35$92,32713 claims
MerckVerquvo$23$24,05027 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 40 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Georgia.

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