Stephen Prater, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Braselton, GANPI 1821097296
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 459 payments — averaging $23.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Pfizer$830
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$784
- Novartis$456
- plus $3K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,08910%
- Food & beverage$9,63390%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 120 | $2,784 |
| Boston Scientific | 59 | $1,835 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 20 | $1,283 |
| Pfizer | 56 | $830 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 36 | $784 |
| Novartis | 27 | $456 |
| Amgen | 22 | $394 |
| Merck | 17 | $344 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 11 | $342 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $269 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $191 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 9 | $140 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $79 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 5 | $78 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $73 |
| Braemar Manufacturing, LLC | 1 | $59 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $57 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $56 |
| Bayer | 3 | $49 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $41 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vital Connect, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $15 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- AVEIR$1,139
- Micra$573
- WATCHMAN Access System$268
- WATCHMAN FLX$251
- Cobalt$237
- Azure$167
- LifeVest$110
How this compares
$10,722 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 93 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Georgia.
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Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 564 | $616,344 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 147 | $198,951 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 21 | $18,733 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 344 | $15,381 |
| Dofetilide | 50 | $10,918 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 286 | $5,823 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 273 | $3,473 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 143 | $3,245 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 181 | $3,242 |
| Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl | 15 | $2,258 |
| Potassium Chloride | 71 | $1,346 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 118 | $1,040 |
| Losartan Potassium | 100 | $987 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 20 | $963 |
| Propafenone Hcl | 13 | $950 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $830 | $616,344564 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $269 | $198,951147 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $456 | $18,73321 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 20th percentile of 93 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Georgia.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Braselton
- David DelurgioAtlanta$4.2M
- Alok GambhirGainesville$1.7M
- Kent NilssonAthens$1.4M
- David NewtonSavannah$1.4M
- Sandeep GoyalAtlanta$1.3M
- Mikhael El-ChamiAtlanta$1.1M
- Felix SogadeMacon$875K
- Sricharan KantipudiAtlanta$663K
- Anshul PatelAtlanta$615K
- Michael LloydAtlanta$444K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.