Adam Wells, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1154765113
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $505 of the $805 with a category attached, or 62.8%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. at 37.2% of the total.
Across 25 payments — averaging $32.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$300
- Abiomed$158
- Gilead$134
- AstraZeneca$55
- GSK$54
- Pfizer$27
- plus $78 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$30037%
- Food & beverage$50563%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $300 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $158 |
| Gilead | 7 | $134 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $55 |
| GSK | 4 | $54 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $27 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $18 |
| Bio Products Laboratory USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Impella$103
How this compares
$805 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 190 critical care medicine providers in North Carolina.
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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.
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- Benjamin BregmanWinston Salem$11K
- Jason ThomasonWinston Salem$7K
- Sean MurphyWinston Salem$6K
- David DefeoWinston Salem$6K
- Romel GobunsuyWinston Salem$2K
- Philip KeithWinston Salem$2K
- Blair BrownWinston Salem$2K
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.