Has Leah Raff received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,055 in general payments to Leah Raff across 99 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 Leah Raff 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 Leah Raff 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.

Leah Raff

Family · Eagan, MNNPI 1356715304

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 37.1% of the total. Among family clinicians in MN 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.

$5,055in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 99 payments — averaging $51.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$2K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
Johnson & Johnson$280
Novo Nordisk$197
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$149
Merck$140
plus $751 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,30045%
Food & beverage$2,74154%
Education$140%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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	16	$1,875
Atricure, Inc.	15	$1,663
Johnson & Johnson	13	$280
Novo Nordisk	10	$197
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	3	$149
Merck	8	$140
Pfizer	6	$129
AstraZeneca	3	$112
Boehringer Ingelheim	5	$108
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$85
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$53
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	3	$51
Abiomed	1	$37
Bayer	1	$35
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$35
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$28
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	1	$25
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$22
Novartis	1	$19
Philips North America LLC	1	$14

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.

THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,430
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,196
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,094

How this compares

$5,055 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,121 family providers in Minnesota.

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Other family in Eagan

Erin HewittMinnetonka$172K
Julia GourdeMinneapolis$65K
Robin DontaMinneapolis$60K
Kristin WeberMinneapolis$35K
Crista WenischBurnsville$30K
Kathleen FredellMinneapolis$28K
Christina RichardsonNorthfield$27K
Diana CzelMinneapolis$24K
Alesya ShumkovMinnetonka$22K
Michelle HigginsStewartville$20K

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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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