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

Joseph Lightsey

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Augusta, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1033522990 CMS profile 1076124

818 Saint Sebastian Way Ste 311, Augusta, GA 30901

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General payments

$44,576

314 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, Joseph Lightsey of Augusta, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $44,576 across 314 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 73rd 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 $5,886 53
2024 General $5,958 55
2023 General $5,135 47
2022 General $10,787 36
2021 General $13,875 49
2020 General $1,909 32
2019 General $1,026 42

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Joseph Lightsey were reported at $5,886. 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 Joseph Lightsey Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,026 $2,361 $585–$8,260 $163
2020 $1,909 $993 $247–$4,351 $114
2021 $13,875 $1,185 $326–$4,739 $132
2022 $10,787 $2,073 $554–$6,789 $149
2023 $5,135 $2,568 $759–$8,159 $160
2024 $5,958 $2,557 $703–$7,403 $164
2025 $5,886 $2,462 $733–$7,710 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $31,658 126 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $5,364 26 payments
  3. Biosense Webster, Inc. $2,181 47 payments
  4. Biotronik Inc. $1,554 14 payments
  5. Philips Electronics North America Corporation $808 1 payment
  6. Abbott Laboratories $603 7 payments
  7. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $438 8 payments
  8. Pfizer Inc. $317 20 payments
  9. Cardiva Medical, Inc. $278 4 payments
  10. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $261 17 payments
  11. Other $1,112 44 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Grant $17,000 3 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $16,095 61 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $10,963 246 payments
  4. Education $518 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. FARAPULSE $2,577 6 payments
  2. EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN $2,250 15 payments
  3. Micra $2,072 21 payments
  4. Carto 3 $2,023 44 payments
  5. DIAMONDTEMP BIDIRECTIONAL ABLATION CATHETER $1,395 16 payments
  6. INGEVITY+ $1,228 4 payments
  7. AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN $962 2 payments
  8. AMPLIA MRI QUAD CRT-D SURESCAN $935 3 payments
  9. General - Therapies $882 2 payments
  10. (7881) US Und $808 1 payment
  11. Other $5,336 155 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

738

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: 1,090

Drug cost

$185,116

Median for Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: $354,841

Branded share of claims

41.1%

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 134 $130,642
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 48 $37,682
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 14 $9,978
Flecainide Acetate Generic 60 $2,062
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 80 $1,222
Amiodarone Hcl Generic 99 $1,170
Omeprazole Generic 36 $501
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd) Diltiazem Hcl Brand 13 $321
Carvedilol Generic 29 $238
Sotalol Sotalol Hcl Brand 13 $221

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 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 · 69 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$141,771

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

524

Average age 77

Services billed

2,095

252 women, 272 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%
Atrial fibrillation 61%
Ischemic heart disease 53%
Arthritis 51%
Diabetes 40%
Chronic kidney disease 40%
Heart failure 39%
COPD 23%

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.

Records

314 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

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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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