Jason Foerst, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Roanoke, VANPI 1255435293
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 845 payments — averaging $1130.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$460K
- Boston Scientific$212K
- Medtronic$203K
- Abbott$70K
- Ancora Heart, Inc.$8K
- Abiomed$860
- plus $1K from 12 others
Across 32 payments — averaging $393.83 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$13K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,58218%
- Speaking & faculty fees$81,82747%
- Travel & lodging$36,88721%
- Food & beverage$24,70014%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 341 | $459,939 |
| Boston Scientific | 102 | $212,246 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 209 | $203,085 |
| Abbott | 127 | $70,060 |
| Ancora Heart, Inc. | 18 | $8,018 |
| Abiomed | 22 | $860 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 5 | $372 |
| Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. | 3 | $339 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $162 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $117 |
| Amgen | 2 | $97 |
| Jenavalve Technology, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $49 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $43 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $18 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 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.
- CoreValve Evolut$57,164
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$49,900
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$33,029
- AccuCinch$7,234
- EVOQUE$1,326
- TRICLIP$1,268
- WATCHMAN Access System$1,250
- AMPLATZER Occluders$964
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$785
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$696
- Watchman$460
- Impella$409
- NAVITOR$341
- MitraClip$259
- Optis Coronary Imaging System$224
- Mitra Clip system$149
- Xience Sierra Coronary Stent System$139
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$132
- WATCHMAN FLX$127
- COROFLOW$126
How this compares
$955,573 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 176 interventional cardiology providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 144 | $164,349 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 98 | $94,275 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 59 | $84,675 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 18 | $17,684 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 12 | $13,065 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 158 | $1,956 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 47 | $1,318 |
| Furosemide | 237 | $1,207 |
| Carvedilol | 127 | $1,035 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 109 | $1,008 |
| Potassium Chloride | 47 | $899 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 85 | $789 |
| Bumetanide | 28 | $787 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 54 | $781 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 88 | $727 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $43 | $164,349144 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 176 interventional cardiology providers in Virginia.
Other interventional cardiology in Roanoke
- Chalak BerzingiRoanoke$24K
- Deepak TalrejaVirginia Beach$2M
- Rajiv TayalFredericksburg$2M
- Michael RagostaCharlottesville$1M
- Noah JonesFalls Church$907K
- John SaxonCharlottesville$900K
- Wayne BatchelorFalls Church$723K
- Matthew SummersNorfolk$614K
- Matthew SherwoodFalls Church$512K
- Gansevoort DunningtonRichmond$440K
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.