Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

George Yankey

Interventional Cardiology Columbia, SC Medical Doctor

NPI 1902292683 CMS profile 11300589

2435 Forest Dr, Columbia, SC 29204

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General payments

$41,333

316 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, George Yankey of Columbia, SC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $41,333 across 316 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 85th percentile of Interventional Cardiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $6,655 92
2024 General $6,235 81
2023 General $8,813 94
2022 General $19,369 46
2021 General $261 3

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • George Yankey
  • Interventional Cardiology median
  • Middle half of Interventional Cardiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to George Yankey were reported at $6,655. Among 6,173 Interventional Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,092 and the middle half received between $366 and $3,019.

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Year George Yankey Interventional Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $1,097 $329–$3,048 $163
2020 $0 $473 $161–$1,480 $114
2021 $261 $677 $233–$1,827 $132
2022 $19,369 $978 $333–$2,724 $149
2023 $8,813 $1,136 $382–$2,986 $160
2024 $6,235 $1,181 $395–$3,326 $164
2025 $6,655 $1,092 $366–$3,019 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $21,133 66 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $5,540 84 payments
  3. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $5,005 49 payments
  4. Abbott Laboratories $3,985 36 payments
  5. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. $1,753 16 payments
  6. Abiomed $1,542 22 payments
  7. Recor Medical Inc $670 6 payments
  8. Shockwave Medical, Inc $228 2 payments
  9. Novo Nordisk Inc $224 2 payments
  10. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $166 3 payments
  11. Other $1,087 30 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $17,224 276 payments
  2. Grant $15,000 1 payment
  3. Travel and Lodging $8,917 37 payments
  4. Education $192 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. COREVALVE EVOLUT R $5,560 58 payments
  2. AVVIGO Guidance System $1,907 22 payments
  3. GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder $1,753 16 payments
  4. PASCAL $1,620 14 payments
  5. MITRACLIP $1,490 10 payments
  6. Impella $1,261 10 payments
  7. WATCHMAN Access System $1,058 12 payments
  8. SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA $728 9 payments
  9. WATCHMAN FLX $668 21 payments
  10. EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) $546 7 payments
  11. Other $5,511 102 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 · 20 drugs

Part D claims

751

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$115,255

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

35%

Median for Cardiology: 25.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 47 $37,141
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 36 $32,974
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 40 $28,967
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 25 $11,079
Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate Brand 101 $1,037
Atorvastatin Calcium Generic 96 $726
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 73 $703
Prasugrel Hcl Generic 25 $599
Spironolactone Generic 66 $288
Torsemide Generic 16 $252

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 20 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 18,782 Part D prescribers listed as Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 86 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$154,736

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

597

Average age 75

Services billed

1,713

297 women, 300 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%
Ischemic heart disease 65%
Heart failure 51%
Arthritis 50%
Atrial fibrillation 48%
Chronic kidney disease 47%
Diabetes 46%
COPD 24%

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

3 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
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $74
$74 — —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $74
$74 — —
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $22
$22 — —

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

316 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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