Connie Hess, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Aurora, CONPI 1023210069
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (50.0%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Amgen at 46.3% of the total.
Across 32 payments — averaging $606.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$9K
- Novartis$4K
- Novo Nordisk$3K
- Regeneron$3K
- Abbott$29
- Merck$25
- plus $55 from 3 others
Across 16 payments — averaging $56,237 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.
- Amgen$794K
- Merck$101K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,70250%
- Travel & lodging$8,34943%
- Food & beverage$1,3697%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 17 | $8,996 |
| Novartis | 3 | $4,309 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $3,319 |
| Regeneron | 4 | $2,686 |
| Abbott | 1 | $29 |
| Merck | 1 | $25 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $17 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 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
$19,420 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 111 interventional cardiology providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 40 | $31,815 |
| EliquisApixaban | 15 | $25,014 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 32 | $597 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 22 | $259 |
| Ezetimibe | 14 | $243 |
| Nitroglycerin | 14 | $204 |
| Furosemide | 11 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Aurora
- Gareth MorganAurora$536K
- Jamaluddin MolooAurora$272K
- Jenny Zablah AlabiAurora$269K
- Sridhar Sampath-KumarAurora$142K
- Matthew ZipseAurora$137K
- Jeffrey ParkAurora$132K
- Akhil Rasim ReddyAurora$29K
- John CarrollAurora$25K
- Aken DesaiAurora$19K
- Neel ButalaAurora$10K
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.