Aaron Trachte, MD
Vascular Surgery · Lawton, OKNPI 1629063300
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 33 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $215 and has fallen 66.8% since, to $72 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in OK, where the typical reported total is $6,612.
Across 33 payments — averaging $21.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Surmodics, Inc.$85
- Hemosonics LLC$76
- Atricure, Inc.$50
- Elutia, Inc.$47
- Medtronic$44
- Abbott$39
- plus $352 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$693100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surmodics, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $76 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $44 |
| Abbott | 2 | $39 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $33 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $26 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 2 | $25 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $23 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $22 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$693 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 35 vascular surgery providers in Oklahoma.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 79 | $767 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 32 | $322 |
| Potassium Chloride | 25 | $264 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 32 | $130 |
| Furosemide | 25 | $111 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 18 | $88 |
| Prednisone | 17 | $77 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $61 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 11 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Lawton
- John CarterLawton$285
- Adel BarkatTulsa$459K
- Alexandros MalliosTulsa$251K
- Jim MeltonOklahoma City$131K
- Lenny StubbsOklahoma City$56K
- Ali AminOklahoma City$41K
- Andres GuerraTulsa$40K
- Bernardino RochaOklahoma City$34K
- John WeberTulsa$34K
- Clifford HowellOklahoma City$17K
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.