Variables Value
Total amounts of payments
Payment values, $
112,934,503
Number of payments, No.
164,978
Payments per cardiologist
Mean (standard deviation) a
Payment values, $
12,649 (35,012)
Number of payments, No.
16.7 (33.9)
Median (interquartile range) a
Payment values, $
2,947 (1,022 – 8,787)
Number of payments, No.
7.0 (2.0 – 17.0)
Maximuma
Payment values, $
782,015
Number of payments, No.
575.0
Gini index
0.840
Cardiologists with specific amounts of payments (N=15,048), n (%)
No payment
5,190 (34.5)
Any payments
9,858 (65.5)
$1-$1,000
2,318 (15.4)
$1,001-$10,000
5,314 (35.3)
$10,001-$50,000
1,825 (12.1)
$50,001-$100,000
225 (1.5)
$100,001-$200,000
109 (0.7)
$200,001 or more
67 (0.5)
Payment categories
Lecturing payments
Monetary value (%), $
100,067,695 (88.6)
Number of payments (%), No.
148,012 (8.0)
Number of cardiologists receiving payments (%), n
9,710 (64.5)
Consulting payments
Monetary value (%), $
9,084,765 (89.7)
Number of payments (%), No.
11,814 (8.0)
Number of cardiologists receiving payments (%), n
3,561 (23.7)
Writing payments
Monetary value (%), $
3,782,044 (3.3)
Number of payments (%), No.
5,152 (3.1)
Number of cardiologists receiving payments (%), n
2,300 (15.3)