Christopher Lowe
Acute Care · Fredericksburg, VANPI 1982274379
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 103 payments — averaging $21.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$460
- Philips North America LLC$319
- Medicomp Inc$256
- Novo Nordisk$167
- Merck$122
- Amgen$107
- plus $764 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,17599%
- Education$201%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 27 | $460 |
| Philips North America LLC | 14 | $319 |
| Medicomp Inc | 6 | $256 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $167 |
| Merck | 7 | $122 |
| Amgen | 6 | $107 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $102 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $87 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $83 |
| Bayer | 4 | $77 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $57 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $44 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $41 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $31 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $22 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $19 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| GSK | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$2,195 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 599 acute care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 96 | $85,555 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 59 | $68,206 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 11 | $15,673 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 15 | $13,914 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 14 | $6,118 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 60 | $1,117 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 68 | $1,082 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 75 | $989 |
| Ezetimibe | 35 | $965 |
| Losartan Potassium | 88 | $895 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 17 | $541 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 43 | $434 |
| Olmesartan Medoxomil | 14 | $428 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 25 | $375 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 70 | $368 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $83 | $85,55596 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $460 | $68,20659 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $16 | $15,67311 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $17 | $13,91415 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 599 acute care providers in Virginia.
Other acute care in Fredericksburg
- Corinnia WagnerFredericksburg$18K
- Amber FrenchFredericksburg$7K
- Vicki WallaceFredericksburg$4K
- Sarah DavalleFredericksburg$4K
- Rachel DukeRichmond$751K
- Julia KingNorfolk$99K
- Sarah KennedyNorfolk$57K
- Sarah W ShermanNorth Chesterfield$41K
- Tamara StephensDeltaville$30K
- Debra CastnerNassawadox$28K
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.