Lena Ali
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Falls Church, VANPI 1740068402
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,490 of the $2,409 with a category attached, or 61.8%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 55.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,952, more than ten times the $75 reported in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $4,498.
Across 35 payments — averaging $68.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- Cvrx, Inc.$365
- Boehringer Ingelheim$127
- Novo Nordisk$117
- United Therapeutics Corporation$116
- Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$106
- plus $238 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$86536%
- Food & beverage$1,49062%
- Education$542%
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 | 13 | $1,340 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $365 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $127 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $117 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 4 | $116 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $106 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $54 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $54 |
| Novartis | 2 | $47 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Bayer | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $22 |
| Invivyd 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
$2,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 43 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Virginia.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 22 | $240 |
| Spironolactone | 14 | $89 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in Falls Church
- Palak ShahFalls Church$112K
- Shashank DesaiFalls Church$80K
- Michael FlanaganFalls Church$29K
- Lauren CooperFalls Church$21K
- Allman RollinsFalls Church$9K
- Iyad IssehFalls Church$6K
- Jamie KennedyFalls Church$4K
- Timothy WelchFalls Church$4K
- Vanessa BlumerFalls Church$2K
- Amin YehyaNorfolk$398K
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.