Has Linda Hart received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $20,874 in general payments to Linda Hart across 71 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 Linda Hart 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 Linda Hart 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.

Linda Hart

Acute Care · Midlothian, VANPI 1689607186

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $17,360 of the $20,874 with a category attached, or 83.2%. Nuwellis, Inc. accounts for 83.2% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among acute care clinicians in VA 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.

$20,874in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $294.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Nuwellis, Inc.$17K
Abbott$727
Boston Scientific$427
Edwards Lifesciences$302
Novo Nordisk$260
Novartis$258
plus $2K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$17,36083%
Food & beverage$3,51517%

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
Nuwellis, Inc.	5	$17,360
Abbott	15	$727
Boston Scientific	7	$427
Edwards Lifesciences	3	$302
Novo Nordisk	6	$260
Novartis	7	$258
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	4	$255
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$248
Boehringer Ingelheim	4	$238
Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.	2	$201
Shockwave Medical, Inc	1	$163
AstraZeneca	1	$121
Pfizer	1	$105
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$56
Bayer	2	$40
Merck	2	$34
Cardiac Dimensions, Inc.	1	$28
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$28
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$25

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.

AQUADEX SMARTFLOW CONSOLE$17,360
MitraClip$272
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$269
Assure WCD$188
Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$163
Farapulse$145
LEQVIO$135
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$128
WATCHMAN FLX$125
WAINUA$121
Attruby$112
FUROSCIX$112
JARDIANCE$109
NURTEC ODT$105

How this compares

$20,874 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 599 acute care providers in Virginia.

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Other acute care in Midlothian

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Julia KingNorfolk$99K
Sarah KennedyNorfolk$57K
Sarah W ShermanNorth Chesterfield$41K
Tamara StephensDeltaville$30K
Debra CastnerNassawadox$28K
Mica FerlisRichmond$20K
Corinnia WagnerFredericksburg$18K
Tonja StevensArlington$16K

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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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