RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Sweat, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Louisville, KYNPI 1992758197

Payments from drug & device makers

$324in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $21.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$87
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$62
  • Heartflow, Inc.$40
  • Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.$25
  • Abbott$24
  • Stryker$23
  • plus $63 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$30594%
  • Education$206%

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

$324 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 258 cardiovascular disease providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$174,113
Medicare patients
1,128
Services billed
2,261

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
EliquisApixaban411$436,967
XareltoRivaroxaban139$162,126
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan67$75,515
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab24$24,104
BrilintaTicagrelor25$21,262
Metoprolol Succinate775$10,203
Ranolazine ErRanolazine34$3,600
Digoxin163$3,589
Prasugrel Hcl15$3,208
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl55$2,640
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate110$2,121
Mexiletine Hcl11$2,113
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate266$2,098
Atorvastatin Calcium234$2,004
Flecainide Acetate51$1,849

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$16$162,126139 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta$12$21,26225 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 10th percentile of 258 cardiovascular disease providers in Kentucky.

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