Has Philip Gentlesk, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,993 in general payments to Philip Gentlesk, MD across 48 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 Philip Gentlesk, MD 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 Philip Gentlesk, MD 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.

Philip Gentlesk, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Norfolk, VANPI 1528059862

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,645 of the $3,993 with a category attached, or 66.2%. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 46.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,635, more than ten times the $137 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $19,771.

$3,993in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $83.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$2K
Boston Scientific$977
Medtronic$615
Biosense Webster, Inc.$447
Welch Allyn$104

$526,474in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 67 payments — averaging $7857.82 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.

Boston Scientific$264K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$158K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$104K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,24431%
Food & beverage$2,64566%
Other$1043%

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
Abbott	14	$1,850
Boston Scientific	14	$977
Medtronic(2 entities)	8	$615
Biosense Webster, Inc.	11	$447
Welch Allyn	1	$104

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

$3,993 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 90 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$498,816

Medicare patients

1,612

Services billed

5,816

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban	367	$440,515
XareltoRivaroxaban	57	$66,167
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	29	$38,986
Dofetilide	34	$6,828
Flecainide Acetate	149	$5,418
Mexiletine Hcl	57	$5,332
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	53	$3,150
Metoprolol Succinate	188	$2,658
Metoprolol Tartrate	78	$796
Amiodarone Hcl	58	$666
Carvedilol	99	$652
Warfarin Sodium	31	$367
SotalolSotalol Hcl	16	$317
Amlodipine Besylate	17	$59

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Norfolk

Olusegun OlusesiNorfolk$47K
Jeffrey HedleyNorfolk$20K
Kenneth EllenbogenRichmond$360K
Brett AtwaterFairfax$319K
Oliver MonfrediCharlottesville$231K
Peem LorvidhayaFredericksburg$230K
Erich KiehlNewport News$181K
Emmanuel EkanemWinchester$132K
Pamela MasonCharlottesville$130K
Ajay PillaiRichmond$129K

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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.

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