Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Brian Lowes

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Omaha, NE Medical Doctor

NPI 1518057298 CMS profile 67957

Emile @ 42Nd St, Omaha, NE 68198

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General payments

$23,150

159 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$548 paid to institutions, not to them · program year 2020

Through program year 2025, Brian Lowes of Omaha, NE is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $23,150 across 159 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $548 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 69th percentile of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $635 22
2024 General $313 16
2023 General $1,464 21
2022 General $1,516 23
2021 General $896 10
2020 General $8,005 28
2019 General $10,320 39

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Brian Lowes
  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology median
  • Middle half of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Brian Lowes were reported at $635. Among 967 Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $1,024 and the middle half received between $289 and $6,890.

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Year Brian Lowes Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $10,320 $863 $224–$4,562 $163
2020 $8,005 $452 $122–$3,992 $114
2021 $896 $550 $159–$3,571 $132
2022 $1,516 $729 $221–$4,357 $149
2023 $1,464 $1,002 $309–$5,827 $160
2024 $313 $931 $273–$5,204 $164
2025 $635 $1,024 $289–$6,890 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $21,604 127 payments
  2. TransMedics, Inc. $439 1 payment
  3. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $275 4 payments
  4. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $212 13 payments
  5. Abiomed $157 2 payments
  6. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $140 2 payments
  7. CVRx, Inc. $137 1 payment
  8. Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. $59 2 payments
  9. Pfizer Inc. $47 3 payments
  10. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $22 1 payment
  11. Other $58 3 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,185 120 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $6,044 32 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $5,824 4 payments
  4. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $5,096 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. HeartMate $9,464 5 payments
  2. HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev $2,325 10 payments
  3. HeartMate PHP $1,883 13 payments
  4. HeartMate II LVAS $1,810 12 payments
  5. Ensite Cardiac Mapping System $1,438 10 payments
  6. THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT $1,354 25 payments
  7. HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device Heart failure $812 6 payments
  8. CARDIOMEMS $778 18 payments
  9. HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device Heart failure $734 6 payments
  10. ORGAN CARE SYSTEM $439 1 payment
  11. Other $2,203 57 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 37 drugs

Part D claims

1,493

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: 1,489

Drug cost

$190,463

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: $885,869

Branded share of claims

14.6%

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: 32.1%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 59 $36,753
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 20 $31,914
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 26 $28,186
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 16 $22,546
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 19 $15,162
Sirolimus Generic 31 $12,097
Tacrolimus Generic 141 $11,614
Mycophenolate Mofetil Generic 97 $7,452
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 14 $6,869
Cyclosporine Modified Cyclosporine, Modified Brand 17 $1,805

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 37 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 800 Part D prescribers listed as Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 25 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$44,039

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

187

Average age 69

Services billed

623

54 women, 133 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Heart failure 75%
Chronic kidney disease 68%
Ischemic heart disease 64%
Diabetes 61%
Atrial fibrillation 57%
Arthritis 45%
Depression 34%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

3 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
ENTRESTO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $42
$42 20 —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $31
$31 — —
INJECTAFER
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc. $19
$19 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

159 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

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An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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