RxDoctor Payments Data

William Belden, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1659361145

Payments from drug & device makers

$22,765in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 125 payments — averaging $182.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$20K
  • Medtronic$909
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$656
  • Abbott$340
  • Boston Scientific$253
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$148
  • plus $443 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3001%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$19,03584%
  • Food & beverage$3,38715%
  • Education$430%

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

$22,765 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 201 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$136,737
Medicare patients
972
Services billed
1,754

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
EliquisApixaban275$244,331
XareltoRivaroxaban138$116,639
Dofetilide46$13,679
Flecainide Acetate180$8,350
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl159$3,557
Amiodarone Hcl171$2,514
Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl18$2,316
SotalolSotalol Hcl126$2,275
Metoprolol Succinate130$2,186
Mexiletine Hcl20$1,433
Metoprolol Tartrate100$346
Warfarin Sodium18$261
Cartia XtDiltiazem Hcl11$251
Valsartan12$86
Sotalol AfSotalol Hcl13$74

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$88$244,331275 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$20,016$116,639138 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 45th percentile of 201 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Pennsylvania.

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