Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

LUCIA ALVAREZ

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

NPI
1477815207
CMS profile
5632540
Location
ATLANTA, GA

General Payments · PY2021–2024

$1,608.06

  • Reported across 29 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$1,142.70

9 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Travel and Lodging $997.17 5
Food and Beverage $145.53 4

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Abbott Laboratories $1,066.75 8
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $75.95 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $178.46 5
PY2022 $272.21 14
PY2023 $14.69 1
PY2024 $1,142.70 9

Payment records · PY2024 (9)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Abbott Laboratories $28.65 09/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125085853 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $12.28 09/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125085855 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $28.65 09/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125085857 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $363.43 09/23/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125412608 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $571.79 09/25/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125412604 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $7.76 10/02/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125412602 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $45.17 10/02/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125412606 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $9.02 10/02/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125412610 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $75.95 10/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138859586 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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