Has Leora Yarboro, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $26,668 in general payments to Leora Yarboro, MD across 119 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 Leora Yarboro, MD 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 Leora Yarboro, MD 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.

Leora Yarboro, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Charlottesville, VANPI 1437378643

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (28.3%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 38.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,888 and has fallen 87.3% since, to $872 in 2025.

$26,668in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 119 payments — averaging $224.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$10K
Edwards Lifesciences$8K
Abbott$4K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
Fortis Surgical, LLC$567
Hemosonics LLC$462
plus $2K from 9 others

$61,003in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $1694.53 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.

Abbott$31K
Medtronic$30K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7,54928%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,00011%
Grants$2,0388%
Travel & lodging$6,12923%
Food & beverage$7,20827%
Education$7443%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	28	$10,347
Edwards Lifesciences	32	$8,405
Abbott	24	$3,726
Atricure, Inc.	16	$1,632
Fortis Surgical, LLC	1	$567
Hemosonics LLC	2	$462
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$354
Arthrex	3	$303
Bolton Medical Inc	2	$271
Abiomed	2	$244
Baxter Healthcare	1	$108
Boston Scientific	1	$94
Corcym Inc	1	$84
Intuitive Surgical	1	$52
Medistim USA, Inc.	3	$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.

HeartWare HVAD$5,727
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$1,794
Arctic Front$1,350
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,214
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$729
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$482
Quantra QPlus System$462
Avalus$380
AngioVac$354
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$312
Epic$300
Impella$244
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$238
QUNATRA QPLUS SYSTEM$217
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$196
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$196
Biocor Stented Tissue Valve$145
Grafts$140
TENDYNE$138
TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$132

How this compares

$26,668 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 109 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$95,780

Medicare patients

131

Services billed

214

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.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Charlottesville

Linda MartinCharlottesville$76K
Kim de la CruzCharlottesville$34K
Adanna AkujuoCharlottesville$16K
Walker JulliardCharlottesville$15K
Mary Carolyn VinsonCharlottesville$8K
Philip CarrottCharlottesville$6K
Jared BellerCharlottesville$5K
Erik ScottCharlottesville$4K
Clinton KempNorfolk$367K
Sandeep KhandharFairfax$261K

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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.

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