Lovkesh Arora, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Iowa City, IANPI 1700029857
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,112 of the $5,054 with a category attached, or 81.4%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 72.8% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,315 and has fallen 54.7% since, to $1,049 in 2024. Among critical care medicine clinicians in IA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 29 payments — averaging $174.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Abiomed$1K
- Merck$117
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$59
Across 3 payments — averaging $57,177 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.
- Edwards Lifesciences$172K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,11281%
- Food & beverage$88317%
- Education$591%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 21 | $3,677 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $1,201 |
| Merck | 1 | $117 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $59 |
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.
- HemoSphere$3,255
- Impella$1,153
- BRIDION$117
- ENTEREG$117
How this compares
$5,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 33 critical care medicine providers in Iowa.
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.
Other critical care medicine in Iowa City
- Charles RappaportIowa City$4K
- David KaczkaIowa City$4K
- Amith George JacobIowa City$3K
- Gregory SchmidtIowa City$2K
- Rachel NfodjoIowa City$764
- Jeffrey WilsonIowa City$182
- Jaime MurphyIowa City$135
- Ann PerinoIowa City$105
- Jonathan SimmonsIowa City$99
- Brittany PechousIowa City$82
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.