RxDoctor Payments Data

William Stellar, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · North Wilkesboro, NCNPI 1053397182

Payments from drug & device makers

$653in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $28.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abiomed$150
  • Philips North America LLC$146
  • Pfizer$101
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$77
  • Boston Scientific$69
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$51
  • plus $59 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Grants$558%
  • Food & beverage$59992%

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

$653 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$45,298
Medicare patients
755
Services billed
972

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
EliquisApixaban88$93,941
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan19$32,534
XareltoRivaroxaban16$20,550
JardianceEmpagliflozin11$8,286
Metoprolol Succinate188$2,245
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl27$930
Atorvastatin Calcium73$788
Flecainide Acetate15$549
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate54$508
Spironolactone53$498
Torsemide12$494
Carvedilol46$481
Metoprolol Tartrate48$372
Lisinopril54$369
Amiodarone Hcl23$351

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$101$93,94188 claims
NovartisEntresto$20$32,53419 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 25th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.

Other cardiovascular disease in North Wilkesboro

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