Sylvia Rushing, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Dothan, ALNPI 1578562484
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 317 payments — averaging $16.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$957
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$671
- Novartis$493
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$420
- AstraZeneca$385
- Boehringer Ingelheim$321
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,24598%
- Education$1192%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 57 | $957 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 32 | $671 |
| Novartis | 33 | $493 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 29 | $420 |
| AstraZeneca | 27 | $385 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 19 | $321 |
| Merck | 19 | $294 |
| Amgen | 15 | $220 |
| Abbott | 11 | $196 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 8 | $147 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $147 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $138 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $125 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $118 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 6 | $115 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 6 | $105 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bayer | 1 | $22 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $18 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $17 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Gilead | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
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.
- CAMZYOS$127
How this compares
$5,363 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 292 cardiovascular disease providers in Alabama.
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 | 300 | $272,847 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 196 | $178,913 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 76 | $76,110 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 32 | $28,443 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 24 | $18,744 |
| VerquvoVericiguat | 24 | $16,786 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 13 | $11,973 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 52 | $4,050 |
| Nebivolol Hcl | 33 | $3,467 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 234 | $2,707 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 176 | $2,138 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 161 | $2,018 |
| Potassium Chloride | 136 | $1,933 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 60 | $1,897 |
| FenofibrateFenofibrate Nanocrystallized | 15 | $1,869 |
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 | $957 | $272,847300 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $493 | $178,913196 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $147 | $76,11076 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $385 | $28,44332 claims |
| MerckVerquvo | $294 | $16,78624 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $147 | $11,97313 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 60th percentile of 292 cardiovascular disease providers in Alabama.
Other cardiovascular disease in Dothan
- Andreas MuenchDothan$2M
- Anjula ChibDothan$27K
- Mustafa AhmedBirmingham$2.5M
- Brian FoleyAlexander City$2.5M
- Alain BouchardBirmingham$1.9M
- William DavisAuburn$1.7M
- Walter HaughtHuntsville$1.6M
- Christopher BrownMobile$1.4M
- Shi-Chi ChengHuntsville$1.2M
- Mahomed SalameAnniston$1.2M
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.