George Vetrovec
Cardiovascular Disease · Richmond, VANPI 1801986450
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $2,135,659 of the $2,278,936 with a category attached, or 93.7%. Abiomed accounts for 99.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $429,595 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $5,293 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease 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.
Across 577 payments — averaging $3949.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$2.3M
- Merck$5K
- Medtronic$250
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$118
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$99
- Novo Nordisk$50
Across 3 payments — averaging $700.00 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.
- Medtronic$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,135,65994%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,7100%
- Travel & lodging$135,2446%
- Food & beverage$6,3130%
- Gifts$100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 563 | $2,273,232 |
| Merck | 9 | $5,188 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $250 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $99 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $50 |
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.
- Impella$2,258,515
- MK-3655$800
- CoreValve Evolut$125
- Resolute$125
- Peripheral Orbital Atherectomy System$118
- Coronary Orbital Atherectomy System$118
How this compares
$2,278,936 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 548 cardiovascular disease providers in Virginia.
Other cardiovascular disease in Richmond
- 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
- Alexander TruesdellFalls Church$167K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.