Amber Barron
Gerontology · Fredericksburg, VANPI 1124535596
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,846 of the $3,220 with a category attached, or 88.4%. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 24.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,470, more than ten times the $11 reported in 2021.
Across 112 payments — averaging $28.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$773
- Intuitive Surgical$374
- Edwards Lifesciences$226
- Heartflow, Inc.$174
- Abbott$169
- Novo Nordisk$163
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$37412%
- Food & beverage$2,84688%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 40 | $773 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $374 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $226 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 4 | $174 |
| Abbott | 2 | $169 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $163 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $152 |
| Novartis | 6 | $123 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $118 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $104 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $103 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $90 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 3 | $85 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $68 |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$3,220 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 130 gerontology providers in Virginia.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 12 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gerontology in Fredericksburg
- Mary EsancyFredericksburg$2K
- Sarah VitalettiFredericksburg$889
- Shiimeal GordonFredericksburg$710
- Lauren FerrisRoanoke$11K
- Catherine RatliffCharlottesville$10K
- Jennifer TaylorAbingdon$9K
- Alexander KingCharlottesville$7K
- Margaret HeidenreichChantilly$6K
- Jillian MaurielloRichmond$6K
- Christine HowellNorfolk$6K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.