RxDoctor Payments Data

William Oellerich, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1841299153

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,152in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 92 payments — averaging $23.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Edwards Lifesciences$1K
  • Heartflow, Inc.$282
  • Medtronic$276
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$48
  • Novartis$22
  • Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.$22
  • plus $99 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,152100%

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

$2,152 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$219,301
Medicare patients
2,354
Services billed
4,325

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
EliquisApixaban487$582,437
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan103$149,151
XareltoRivaroxaban62$77,606
JardianceEmpagliflozin25$25,897
Metoprolol Succinate421$7,108
Rosuvastatin Calcium395$5,772
Ranolazine ErRanolazine17$5,671
Atorvastatin Calcium369$4,195
Valsartan89$4,185
Carvedilol460$3,928
Losartan Potassium262$2,934
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate207$2,856
Amlodipine Besylate502$2,586
Ezetimibe72$2,554
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate183$2,520

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
NovartisEntresto$22$149,151103 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 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

Other cardiovascular disease in Chattanooga

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