Brian Lentz, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Richmond, VANPI 1770535163
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,669 of the $6,651 with a category attached, or 85.2%. It is spread thinly across 36 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,171 and has fallen 75.8% since, to $766 in 2025.
Across 201 payments — averaging $33.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Amgen$649
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$620
- Boston Scientific$490
- Abiomed$485
- Novartis$372
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$88013%
- Food & beverage$5,66985%
- Education$841%
- Gifts$180%
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 | 22 | $1,555 |
| Amgen | 24 | $649 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 5 | $620 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $490 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $485 |
| Novartis | 22 | $372 |
| AstraZeneca | 19 | $293 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 3 | $217 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $205 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $190 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $160 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 5 | $151 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $144 |
| Vital Connect, Inc | 1 | $117 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 2 | $116 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 7 | $108 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $101 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $81 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 6 | $78 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $72 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $53 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $46 |
| Gilead | 3 | $42 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $18 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Xience V coronary stent system$950
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$367
- Impella$275
- AVVIGO Guidance System$260
- Repatha$229
- Diamondback Coronary$166
- Xience Sierra Coronary Stent System$140
- VITALPATCH RTM$117
- ROTAPRO$117
- TherOx DS2 Console$106
- Catheter$106
- Downstream Cartridge$106
How this compares
$6,651 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 548 cardiovascular disease 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.
Other cardiovascular disease in Richmond
- George VetrovecRichmond$2.3M
- Abdullah KhanRichmond$48K
- Carolyn BurnsRichmond$41K
- Robert LevittRichmond$23K
- Jason CookRichmond$18K
- Aaron SchatzRichmond$13K
- Hamid TaheriManassas$501K
- Cyrus HadadiNorfolk$360K
- Michael AyersCharlottesville$305K
- David LimCharlottesville$264K
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.