Has Richard Kuk, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,498 in general payments to Richard Kuk, MD across 46 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 Richard Kuk, 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 Richard Kuk, 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.

Richard Kuk, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Lynchburg, VANPI 1588681316

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,498in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $76.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$1K
Medtronic$1K
Abbott$439
Biosense Webster, Inc.$376
Philips North America LLC$190
Cardiva Medical, Inc.$115
plus $91 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,840100%

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
Boston Scientific	10	$1,195
Medtronic(2 entities)	9	$1,092
Abbott	6	$439
Biosense Webster, Inc.	10	$376
Philips North America LLC	3	$190
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	4	$115
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$39
Atricure, Inc.	1	$38
Elutia, Inc.	1	$14

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

$3,498 in reported general payments places this provider in the 5th percentile of 90 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$362,755

Medicare patients

2,923

Services billed

6,444

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	183	$158,930
XareltoRivaroxaban	69	$60,261
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	69	$56,367
Flecainide Acetate	63	$1,662
Propafenone Hcl	16	$1,048
Carvedilol	117	$1,021
Metoprolol Succinate	56	$865
SotalolSotalol Hcl	67	$793
Atorvastatin Calcium	68	$649
Warfarin Sodium	80	$538
Amlodipine Besylate	111	$457
Potassium Chloride	21	$433
Rosuvastatin Calcium	11	$336
Pantoprazole Sodium	51	$330
Amiodarone Hcl	25	$325

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Lynchburg

Matthew SackettLynchburg$214K
Chinmaya MareddyLynchburg$30K
Kenneth EllenbogenRichmond$1.4M
Brett AtwaterFairfax$1.2M
Pamela MasonCharlottesville$894K
Erich KiehlNewport News$862K
James MangrumCharlottesville$717K
Haroon RashidFalls Church$602K
Sarfraz DurraniFairfax$564K
Kenneth BilchickCharlottesville$554K

See the full list for Virginia →

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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