Has Erich Kiehl, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $181,494 in general payments to Erich Kiehl, MD across 374 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 Erich Kiehl, 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 Erich Kiehl, 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.

Erich Kiehl, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Newport News, VANPI 1184913501

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $124,609 of the $181,494 with a category attached, or 68.7%. Philips North America LLC accounts for 64.0% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in VA 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.

$181,494in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 374 payments — averaging $485.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Philips North America LLC$116K
Medtronic$32K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$20K
Abbott$5K
Boston Scientific$3K
Biotronik Inc.$3K
plus $2K from 9 others

$680,866in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 102 payments — averaging $6675.16 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.

Abbott$355K
Boston Scientific$161K
Medtronic$142K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$21K
Eli Lilly$631
Eli Lilly Export S.A. Puerto Rico Branch$79

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$124,60969%
Speaking & faculty fees$4,7503%
Travel & lodging$39,18622%
Food & beverage$12,9507%

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
Philips North America LLC	103	$116,082
Medtronic(2 entities)	111	$32,229
Biosense Webster, Inc.	51	$19,590
Abbott	44	$5,159
Boston Scientific	39	$3,314
Biotronik Inc.	9	$2,860
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	4	$1,374
Vital Connect, Inc	2	$255
Masimo Corporation	2	$231
Abiomed	1	$137
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	3	$112
Inari Medical, Inc.	2	$107
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$18
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$16
Shockwave Medical, Inc	1	$12

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.

(9520) IGT Devices Undivided$100,091
Carto 3$14,849
(9124) LM Undivided$7,875
AVEIR$3,309
(5028) IGT Devices Systems Undivided$3,300
Arctic Front$2,913
US Und$961
GENERAL - THERAPIES$940
IGT Devices Und$924
Watchman$911
AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$775
Micra$496
TightRail$470
IGT D Therapy$470
VITALPATCH RTM$255
EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$158
Allure Quadra RF CRT Pacemaker$155
ENSITE PRECISION$145
Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$137
Impella$137

How this compares

$181,494 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 90 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$386,575

Medicare patients

1,299

Services billed

4,390

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	364	$389,159
XareltoRivaroxaban	86	$120,102
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	23	$28,807
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	31	$27,199
Dofetilide	69	$14,824
Flecainide Acetate	125	$5,100
Metoprolol Succinate	100	$1,464
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	44	$1,074
Amiodarone Hcl	47	$498
Metoprolol Tartrate	40	$387
Carvedilol	33	$298
Warfarin Sodium	17	$258
Furosemide	29	$134
Losartan Potassium	14	$109
Potassium Chloride	12	$75

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Newport News

Maen Abou ZikiNewport News$35K
Divyang PatelNewport News$35K
Kenneth EllenbogenRichmond$360K
Brett AtwaterFairfax$319K
Oliver MonfrediCharlottesville$231K
Peem LorvidhayaFredericksburg$230K
Emmanuel EkanemWinchester$132K
Pamela MasonCharlottesville$130K
Ajay PillaiRichmond$129K
Stephen GaetaFairfax$85K

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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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