Has Jacob Blackwell received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $48,598 in general payments to Jacob Blackwell across 246 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 Jacob Blackwell 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 Jacob Blackwell 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.

Jacob Blackwell

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Richmond, VANPI 1447782420

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — grants (50.7%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 41.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $22,374 and has fallen 82.5% since, to $3,911 in 2025.

$48,598in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 246 payments — averaging $197.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$20K
Boston Scientific$17K
Medtronic$6K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$1K
Philips North America LLC$935
plus $798 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Grants$24,62551%
Travel & lodging$13,34227%
Food & beverage$10,18221%
Education$4491%

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
Abbott	68	$20,177
Boston Scientific	46	$16,951
Medtronic	39	$5,683
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	17	$2,751
Biosense Webster, Inc.	38	$1,303
Philips North America LLC	9	$935
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	17	$399
Biotronik Inc.	1	$122
AstraZeneca	1	$99
Novartis	3	$48
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$36
Pfizer	2	$30
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	1	$29
Johnson & Johnson	1	$19
Atricure, Inc.	1	$15

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

$48,598 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 90 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Virginia.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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