Eric Heller
Hospitalist · Iowa City, IANPI 1508248840
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $17,879 of the $24,778 with a category attached, or 72.2%. Boston Scientific accounts for 64.5% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among hospitalist clinicians in IA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 130 payments — averaging $190.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$16K
- Abbott$7K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$431
- Medtronic$294
- Cardiva Medical, Inc.$135
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$119
- plus $642 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$17,87972%
- Travel & lodging$1,3936%
- Food & beverage$4,26517%
- Education$1,2425%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 69 | $15,986 |
| Abbott | 23 | $7,171 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 12 | $431 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $294 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $135 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 3 | $119 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $113 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $104 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $93 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $80 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $60 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Amgen | 1 | $33 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Watchman$6,250
- ASSURITY$1,705
- TACTICATH$1,136
- GENERAL EP$700
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$214
- CARDIOMEMS$206
- Carto 3$120
- Cardiva VASCADE MVP VVCS 6-12F$108
- QDOT MICRO Catheter$102
How this compares
$24,778 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 223 hospitalist providers in Iowa.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Flecainide Acetate | 14 | $425 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 14 | $106 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 11 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Iowa City
- Robert DemuthIowa City$40K
- Hammad ZafarIowa City$5K
- Mehul AdhadukIowa City$2K
- Muhammad KhalidIowa City$876
- Jennifer GrayIowa City$759
- Robert LoveIowa City$681
- Ruchi SharmaIowa City$529
- Azaria EhlersIowa City$445
- Tilachan ParajuliIowa City$331
- Varun RajagopalanIowa City$279
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.