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

Russell Stapleton

Nuclear Cardiology Fernandina Beach, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1265498976 CMS profile 148688

1250 S 18Th St Ste 202, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034

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General payments

$8,738

347 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

$188,723 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2023

Through program year 2025, Russell Stapleton of Fernandina Beach, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,738 across 347 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $188,723 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 76th percentile of Nuclear 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 $2,079 71
2024 General $1,930 72
2023 General $1,852 84
2022 General $1,504 46
2021 General $687 33
2020 General $204 13
2019 General $482 28

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Russell Stapleton
  • Nuclear Cardiology median
  • Middle half of Nuclear Cardiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Russell Stapleton were reported at $2,079. Among 99 Nuclear Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $434 and the middle half received between $138 and $985.

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Year Russell Stapleton Nuclear Cardiology median Middle half National median
2019 $482 $552 $91–$1,768 $163
2020 $204 $204 $61–$1,106 $114
2021 $687 $354 $99–$886 $132
2022 $1,504 $506 $101–$1,186 $149
2023 $1,852 $545 $148–$1,432 $160
2024 $1,930 $484 $131–$1,430 $164
2025 $2,079 $434 $138–$985 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $918 17 payments
  2. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $808 42 payments
  3. Medtronic, Inc. $703 14 payments
  4. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $677 37 payments
  5. Pfizer Inc. $671 29 payments
  6. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $540 27 payments
  7. CVRx, Inc. $465 17 payments
  8. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $343 16 payments
  9. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $342 15 payments
  10. Boston Scientific Corporation $335 4 payments
  11. Other $2,936 129 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $8,702 345 payments
  2. Education $20 1 payment
  3. Grant $16 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. VERQUVO $678 33 payments
  2. LifeVest $677 37 payments
  3. ONYX FRONTIER $608 10 payments
  4. LEQVIO $585 28 payments
  5. VYNDAQEL $531 23 payments
  6. Barostim Neo System $465 17 payments
  7. NEXLETOL $275 14 payments
  8. ENTRESTO $223 9 payments
  9. XARELTO $211 13 payments
  10. Kerendia $193 10 payments
  11. Other $4,740 181 payments

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

Records

347 reported

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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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