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

Leo Simpson

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1922019967 CMS profile 314352

7200 Cambridge St Fl 6, Fl 6, Houston, TX 77030

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General payments

$29,797

366 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$166

Paid to them · 1 record reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Leo Simpson of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $29,797 across 366 general payments and $166 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 73rd percentile of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $155 6
2024 General $1,043 104
2023 General $3,028 91
2023 Research $166 1
2022 General $2,460 43
2021 General $13,409 38
2020 General $957 29
2019 General $8,745 55

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Leo Simpson
  • 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 Leo Simpson were reported at $155. 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 Leo Simpson Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $8,745 $863 $224–$4,562 $163
2020 $957 $452 $122–$3,992 $114
2021 $13,409 $550 $159–$3,571 $132
2022 $2,460 $729 $221–$4,357 $149
2023 $3,028 $1,002 $309–$5,827 $160
2024 $1,043 $931 $273–$5,204 $164
2025 $155 $1,024 $289–$6,890 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abiomed $13,592 25 payments
  2. Abbott Laboratories $10,132 86 payments
  3. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $1,915 69 payments
  4. Medtronic, Inc. $894 9 payments
  5. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $711 20 payments
  6. Cardiovascular Systems Inc. $527 16 payments
  7. Cardiva Medical, Inc. $525 81 payments
  8. Boston Scientific Corporation $511 11 payments
  9. iRhythm Technologies, Inc. $153 11 payments
  10. Amgen Inc. $109 7 payments
  11. Other $726 31 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Honoraria $10,200 3 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $8,712 333 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $5,950 4 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $4,809 25 payments
  5. Education $126 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Impella $13,592 25 payments
  2. CardioMEMS HF System $6,464 7 payments
  3. Mitra Clip system $1,601 12 payments
  4. EDWARDS SAPIEN 3 TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE (THV) $1,217 10 payments
  5. CARDIOMEMS $807 25 payments
  6. CoreValve Evolut $437 12 payments
  7. Diamondback Coronary Vascular $359 5 payments
  8. Diamondback Coronary Atherectomy Device $290 3 payments
  9. HeartMate Touch $259 3 payments
  10. Diamondback Peripheral $237 3 payments
  11. Other $3,643 218 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abiomed $166 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 47 drugs

Part D claims

3,816

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

Drug cost

$523,195

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

Branded share of claims

23.9%

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
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 119 $133,550
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 95 $105,493
Brilinta Ticagrelor Brand 77 $56,015
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 34 $42,216
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 55 $35,166
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 24 $31,041
Sirolimus Generic 36 $17,506
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 18 $17,109
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 15 $14,136
Tacrolimus Generic 75 $11,503

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 47 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 · 39 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$140,489

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

272

Average age 69

Services billed

1,297

94 women, 178 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%
Ischemic heart disease 75%
Heart failure 71%
Chronic kidney disease 67%
Diabetes 55%
Atrial fibrillation 49%
Arthritis 38%
COPD 21%

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

5 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
FUROSCIX
  • SCPHARMACEUTICALS INC. $28
$28 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $27
$27 34 —
Wegovy
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $25
$25 — —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $23
$23 — —
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $18
$18 55 —

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

367 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

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

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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