Neil Weissman
Cardiovascular Disease · Washington, DCNPI 1851332175
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $5,000 of the $8,213 with a category attached, or 60.9%. Pfizer accounts for 61.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,673 and has fallen 94.8% since, to $140 in 2025.
Across 17 payments — averaging $483.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$5K
- Butterfly Network, Inc.$2K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$408
- Abbott$141
- Medtronic$102
- Boston Scientific$72
- plus $73 from 2 others
Across 198 payments — averaging $10,505 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.
- Medtronic$1.4M
- Abbott$241K
- Boston Scientific$237K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$123K
- Edwards Lifesciences$121K
- Pfizer$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,00061%
- Food & beverage$81410%
- Other$2,39929%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 3 | $5,016 |
| Butterfly Network, Inc. | 1 | $2,399 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 6 | $408 |
| Abbott | 3 | $141 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $102 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $72 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $36 |
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.
- VYNDAQEL$5,000
- Butterfly iQ$2,399
- SC2000$116
- Micra$102
How this compares
$8,213 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 105 cardiovascular disease providers in District of Columbia.
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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.