Has Russell Heath, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $21,786 in general payments to Russell Heath, MD across 138 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 Russell Heath, 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 Russell Heath, 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.

Russell Heath, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Fort Collins, CONPI 1649326265

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (37.3%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 78.3% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $13,078, more than ten times the $71 reported in 2019.

$21,786in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 138 payments — averaging $157.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$17K
Abbott$3K
Medtronic$1K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$264
Atricure, Inc.$69
Philips North America LLC$29

$112,625in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $2963.82 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$109K
Medtronic$4K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,00018%
Speaking & faculty fees$8,12537%
Travel & lodging$6,17028%
Food & beverage$3,42216%
Education$680%

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	83	$17,061
Abbott	31	$3,032
Medtronic	12	$1,332
Biosense Webster, Inc.	8	$264
Atricure, Inc.	3	$69
Philips North America LLC	1	$29

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

$21,786 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 66 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$389,141

Medicare patients

3,625

Services billed

6,168

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	271	$368,664
XareltoRivaroxaban	46	$67,974
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	14	$21,592
Flecainide Acetate	73	$3,871
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	179	$2,617
Amiodarone Hcl	127	$2,528
Metoprolol Succinate	156	$2,429
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	68	$1,892
Mexiletine Hcl	13	$1,521
Dofetilide	20	$807
Warfarin Sodium	81	$654
SotalolSotalol Hcl	39	$615
Diltiazem 24hr ErDiltiazem Hcl	15	$506
Metoprolol Tartrate	43	$463
Carvedilol	41	$270

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Fort Collins

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Charles JohnsonFort Collins$12K
Robert KiserFort Collins$9K
David KatzFort Collins$5K
Srikanth SundaramLittleton$493K
Bradley MikaelianColorado Springs$364K
Wendy TzouAurora$350K
Christopher PorterfieldAurora$340K
Lohit GargAurora$147K
Ganesh VenkataramanLakewood$127K

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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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