Vincent Lipari, DO
Cardiovascular Disease · Hartford, CTNPI 1679936603
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,167 of the $5,353 with a category attached, or 77.8%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 33.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,319 and has fallen 71.6% since, to $375 in 2025.
Across 65 payments — averaging $82.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Medtronic$592
- Abbott$561
- Heartflow, Inc.$520
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$363
- Boston Scientific$361
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,02519%
- Food & beverage$4,16778%
- Education$1623%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 14 | $1,802 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $592 |
| Abbott | 8 | $561 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 3 | $520 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $363 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $361 |
| Amgen | 2 | $223 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $150 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $143 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $119 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $110 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Opsens Inc. | 2 | $90 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $63 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $62 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- PASCAL$1,187
- FFRct$520
- HawkOne$251
- Repatha$223
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$171
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$160
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$147
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$146
- WATCHMAN Access System$142
- IN.PACT Admiral$133
- MitraClip$128
- JARDIANCE$120
- PRALUENT$119
- WATCHMAN FLX$116
- Peripheral Orbital Atherectomy System$107
- Watchman$104
How this compares
$5,353 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 415 cardiovascular disease providers in Connecticut.
Medicare billing
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.
Other cardiovascular disease in Hartford
- Stephanie SaucierHartford$243K
- Antonio FernandezHartford$113K
- Paul ThompsonHartford$108K
- Richard SoucierHartford$97K
- Atique MirzaHartford$29K
- Sean McMahonHartford$23K
- Lonny ReismanHartford$22K
- David HenryHartford$13K
- Nihar DesaiNew Haven$1.4M
- Brett NowlanBloomfield$798K
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.