Suvasini Lakshmanan
Cardiovascular Disease · Iowa City, IANPI 1679914642
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (26.1%), grants and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 37.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,762 and has fallen 77.5% since, to $396 in 2025.
Across 39 payments — averaging $111.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$1K
- Heartflow, Inc.$550
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$179
- Novartis$146
- Amgen$130
- plus $589 from 12 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $8747.90 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.
- Cleerly, Inc.$134K
- Eli Lilly$32K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50011%
- Grants$1,11126%
- Travel & lodging$1,09525%
- Food & beverage$1,13626%
- Education$51012%
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 | 7 | $1,648 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $1,111 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 2 | $550 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 3 | $179 |
| Novartis | 2 | $146 |
| Amgen | 5 | $130 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $102 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $77 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $60 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $50 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $47 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $29 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- ENSITE$1,323
- FFRct$500
- EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$136
- LEQVIO$125
- CARDIOMEMS$107
How this compares
$4,352 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 142 cardiovascular disease providers in Iowa.
Other cardiovascular disease in Iowa City
- Brian OlshanskyIowa City$219K
- Jennifer RobinsonIowa City$37K
- Kimberly StaffeyIowa City$7K
- Aaron SifuentesIowa City$5K
- Rakesh PonnapureddyIowa City$3K
- Corina IorgoveanuIowa City$2K
- Michael HajduIowa City$2K
- Boniface MalanguIowa City$2K
- Ferhaan AhmadIowa City$2K
- Brett JohnsonIowa City$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.