RxDoctor Payments Data

Steven Hamilton, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · El Paso, TXNPI 1972897171

Payments from drug & device makers

$28,003in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 369 payments — averaging $75.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$11K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$6K
  • Boston Scientific$5K
  • Abbott$5K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$343
  • Abiomed$220
  • plus $792 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,37512%
  • Travel & lodging$9,21933%
  • Food & beverage$15,06654%
  • Education$3431%

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.

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

$28,003 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 233 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$279,343
Medicare patients
356
Services billed
1,506

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
EliquisApixaban179$195,148
XareltoRivaroxaban20$18,734
SotalolSotalol Hcl149$3,493
Dofetilide22$2,709
Flecainide Acetate58$2,289
Propafenone Hcl53$2,012
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate45$691
Metoprolol Succinate71$688
Verapamil ErVerapamil Hcl11$342
Sucralfate13$297
Diltiazem Hcl13$273
Pantoprazole Sodium49$170
Amiodarone Hcl15$134
Potassium Chloride20$131
Carvedilol12$123

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$40$195,148179 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$49$18,73420 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 40th percentile of 233 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Texas.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in El Paso

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