RxDoctor Payments Data

Wissam Mechleb, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Hattiesburg, MSNPI 1487841847

Payments from drug & device makers

$432in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $16.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$146
  • Johnson & Johnson$59
  • Amgen$56
  • Baxter Healthcare$47
  • Pfizer$28
  • Boston Scientific$25
  • plus $71 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$432100%

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

$432 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 144 cardiovascular disease providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$804,276
Medicare patients
1,676
Services billed
6,002

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
EliquisApixaban718$559,581
XareltoRivaroxaban133$128,604
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan109$93,821
JardianceEmpagliflozin99$62,081
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab22$22,122
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol23$17,011
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab19$14,342
Metoprolol Succinate1,053$10,295
NexletolBempedoic Acid13$8,167
BrilintaTicagrelor17$7,275
Flecainide Acetate162$3,904
Atorvastatin Calcium622$3,648
Amiodarone Hcl182$3,081
Rosuvastatin Calcium303$2,487
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate233$1,780

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$28$559,581718 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$59$128,604133 claims
NovartisEntresto$146$93,821109 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$16$62,08199 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 15th percentile of 144 cardiovascular disease providers in Mississippi.

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