Margaret Wittenbraker
Acute Care · Richmond, VANPI 1124041694
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,752 of the $4,954 with a category attached, or 75.7%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 70.3% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,500, 5.3 times the $476 reported in 2021. Among acute care clinicians in VA 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 66 payments — averaging $75.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Abbott$872
- Medtronic$566
- Atricure, Inc.$32
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,20224%
- Food & beverage$3,75276%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 48 | $3,484 |
| Abbott | 12 | $872 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $566 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
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
$4,954 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 599 acute care providers in Virginia.
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 acute care in Richmond
- Rachel DukeRichmond$751K
- Mica FerlisRichmond$20K
- Jonathan PenderRichmond$13K
- Erin PerlmutterRichmond$13K
- Emily GilbertRichmond$10K
- Linda HazelgrenRichmond$9K
- Stephanie HerndonRichmond$9K
- Christine RobinsonRichmond$8K
- Kelly McAdamsRichmond$7K
- Linda KashiwabaraRichmond$7K
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.