Justin Pieper
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1528597846
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $27,920 of the $38,649 with a category attached, or 72.2%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 43.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $16,363 and has fallen 71.4% since, to $4,685 in 2025.
Across 134 payments — averaging $288.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$17K
- Boston Scientific$10K
- Medtronic$10K
- Biotronik Inc.$2K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$474
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$143
- plus $356 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$27,92072%
- Travel & lodging$6,31716%
- Food & beverage$4,27811%
- Education$1350%
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 | 52 | $16,616 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $9,667 |
| Medtronic | 27 | $9,563 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 11 | $1,830 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 21 | $474 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $30 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $22 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $21 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- ASSURITY$3,125
- TACTICATH ABLATION CATHETER, SENSOR ENABLED$2,500
- ENSITE PRECISION$1,960
- AVEIR$914
- Solia$780
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$780
- BioMonitor$780
- Edora 8 DR-T$780
- Rivacor 7 DR-T$780
- OPTIMIZER$287
- PulseSelect$167
- AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$137
- Micra$135
- Carto 3$124
How this compares
$38,649 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 74 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Missouri.
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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.