Stephen Heitner
Cardiovascular Disease · Portland, ORNPI 1508079419
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $80,000 of the $104,854 with a category attached, or 76.3%. Pfizer accounts for 93.4% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in OR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 26 payments — averaging $4032.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$98K
- Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$6K
- Vertex$1K
- Bracco Diagnostics Inc.$36
Across 33 payments — averaging $10,195 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.
- Pfizer$199K
- Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$103K
- Amgen$25K
- Array Biopharma Inc$9K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,02916%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,4302%
- Grants$80,00076%
- Travel & lodging$4,4894%
- Food & beverage$9061%
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(2 entities) | 20 | $97,958 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $5,631 |
| Vertex | 2 | $1,229 |
| Bracco Diagnostics Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$104,854 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 198 cardiovascular disease providers in Oregon.
Other cardiovascular disease in Portland
- Firas ZahrPortland$810K
- Scott ChadderdonPortland$282K
- Ahmad MasriPortland$227K
- Abhushan PoudyalPortland$54K
- Douglas DawleyPortland$45K
- Kishor KhanalPortland$39K
- Jeffrey MarbachPortland$19K
- Laith AlkukhunPortland$16K
- Tyler GluckmanPortland$15K
- Sylvia Marie BisoPortland$14K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.