Neil Lewis
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Richmond, VANPI 1679520688
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $7,200 of the $9,143 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Bayer accounts for 80.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,631 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $122 in 2023.
Across 29 payments — averaging $315.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bayer$7K
- Merck$660
- AstraZeneca$434
- Abbott$250
- Lilly USA, LLC$100
- AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$99
- plus $257 from 4 others
Across 96 payments — averaging $1470.69 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.
- Amgen$30K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$29K
- Merck$21K
- Novartis$15K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$15K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$13K
- plus $18K from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,20079%
- Travel & lodging$5626%
- Food & beverage$1,38115%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bayer | 6 | $7,342 |
| Merck | 6 | $660 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $434 |
| Abbott | 3 | $250 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $100 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Valeritas, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $72 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $68 |
| GE HealthCare | 3 | $20 |
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.
- Kerendia$7,200
- MK-1242$506
- FARXIGA$346
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$143
- TRULICITY$100
How this compares
$9,143 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 43 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in Virginia.
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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.