Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

George Black

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Greenville, SC Medical Doctor

NPI 1922427780 CMS profile 5705515

1005 Grove Rd, Greenville, SC 29605

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General payments

$34,888

567 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, George Black of Greenville, SC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $34,888 across 567 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 66th percentile of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $5,530 164
2024 General $5,001 158
2023 General $4,059 150
2022 General $7,808 76
2021 General $10,397 10
2020 General $56 3
2019 General $2,037 6

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • George Black
  • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median
  • Middle half of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to George Black were reported at $5,530. Among 3,064 Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology profiles paid that year, the median was $2,462 and the middle half received between $733 and $7,710.

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Year George Black Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,037 $2,361 $585–$8,260 $163
2020 $56 $993 $247–$4,351 $114
2021 $10,397 $1,185 $326–$4,739 $132
2022 $7,808 $2,073 $554–$6,789 $149
2023 $4,059 $2,568 $759–$8,159 $160
2024 $5,001 $2,557 $703–$7,403 $164
2025 $5,530 $2,462 $733–$7,710 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $17,560 247 payments
  2. Abbott Laboratories $4,679 92 payments
  3. Boston Scientific Corporation $3,687 55 payments
  4. Biotronik Inc. $2,913 7 payments
  5. AltaThera Pharmaceuticals LLC $1,631 2 payments
  6. Biosense Webster, Inc. $1,597 98 payments
  7. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $984 4 payments
  8. Atricure, Inc. $357 7 payments
  9. Philips Electronics North America Corporation $307 7 payments
  10. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $266 12 payments
  11. Other $908 36 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $14,402 538 payments
  2. Grant $10,000 1 payment
  3. Travel and Lodging $8,539 24 payments
  4. Consulting Fee $1,500 1 payment
  5. Education $448 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Carto 3 $2,285 89 payments
  2. General Therapies $1,882 5 payments
  3. AVEIR $1,746 10 payments
  4. Sotalol Hydrochloride $1,631 2 payments
  5. Micra $1,442 47 payments
  6. AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN $1,383 35 payments
  7. EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN $1,235 5 payments
  8. WATCHMAN FLX $1,191 40 payments
  9. COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN $1,179 48 payments
  10. ENSITE PRECISION $1,176 17 payments
  11. Other $7,252 272 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 13 drugs

Part D claims

629

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: 1,090

Drug cost

$206,344

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: $354,841

Branded share of claims

38.8%

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: 38.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 165 $159,627
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 37 $31,160
Corlanor Ivabradine Hcl Brand 15 $9,408
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 149 $2,156
Flecainide Acetate Generic 65 $2,064
Amiodarone Hcl Generic 67 $659
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd) Diltiazem Hcl Brand 15 $458
Warfarin Sodium Generic 13 $220
Pantoprazole Sodium Generic 46 $217
Carvedilol Generic 12 $113

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 13 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 2,573 Part D prescribers listed as Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 72 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$265,024

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

2,926

Average age 76

Services billed

5,567

1,377 women, 1,549 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 53%
Atrial fibrillation 51%
Ischemic heart disease 48%
Heart failure 40%
Chronic kidney disease 38%
Diabetes 34%
Depression 28%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

4 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
LEQVIO
$91 — —
ELIQUIS
$59 165 —
ONPATTRO
$22 — —
Arcalyst
$17 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

567 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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