Has Barbara Pisani, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,855 in general payments to Barbara Pisani, MD across 36 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Barbara Pisani, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Barbara Pisani, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Barbara Pisani, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1366493751

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,860 of the $2,855 with a category attached, or 65.2%. Abbott accounts for 84.4% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,437 and has fallen 88.4% since, to $167 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $18,861.

$2,855in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $79.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$2K
Abiomed$203
Amgen$153
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$64
Cvrx, Inc.$25

$82,209in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $2417.90 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$40K
Amgen$32K
Sanofi US Services Inc.$8K
Novartis$3K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$99535%
Food & beverage$1,86065%

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
Abbott	26	$2,410
Abiomed	4	$203
Amgen	3	$153
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$64
Cvrx, Inc.	2	$25

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

$2,855 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 31 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$50,121

Medicare patients

Services billed

509

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
VyndamaxTafamidis	41	$953,810
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	99	$118,374
JardianceEmpagliflozin	45	$48,648
EliquisApixaban	46	$36,785
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab	12	$14,030
Praluent PenAlirocumab	14	$11,787
NexletolBempedoic Acid	14	$8,913
XareltoRivaroxaban	12	$8,860
Sildenafil Citrate	27	$8,724
Tacrolimus	52	$3,128
Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified	17	$3,103
Mycophenolate Mofetil	59	$2,697
Metoprolol Succinate	85	$1,780
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	66	$1,469
Eplerenone	17	$1,304

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in Winston Salem

Hassan AlhosainiWinston Salem$195K
Aysha AmjadWinston Salem$381
Daniel BensimhonGreensboro$2.1M
Stephen GreeneDurham$582K
John RommelWilmington$263K
Stephen ZouzoulasConcord$244K
Vinay ThohanAsheville$164K
Kishan ParikhRaleigh$158K
Emil MissovGreenville$71K
David IshizawarRaleigh$55K

See the full list for North Carolina →

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.

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