Adrian Laxton, MD
Neurological Surgery · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1063764140
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $37,450 of the $55,020 with a category attached, or 68.1%. Monteris Medical Corporation accounts for 72.4% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 133 payments — averaging $413.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Monteris Medical Corporation$40K
- Medtronic$10K
- Insightec,inc$3K
- Biogen$1K
- Boston Scientific$430
- Abbott$145
- plus $13 from 1 others
Across 34 payments — averaging $8934.58 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Monteris Medical Corporation$157K
- Functional Neuromodulation Inc$147K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$37,45068%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5003%
- Travel & lodging$10,56119%
- Food & beverage$5,50910%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 38 | $39,855 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 67 | $10,261 |
| Insightec,inc | 21 | $3,066 |
| Biogen | 1 | $1,250 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $430 |
| Abbott | 1 | $145 |
| Stryker | 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.
- Neuroblate$39,524
- VISUALASE$3,478
- PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$3,370
- Exablate$2,409
- GENERAL DBS$175
- Infinity DBS Pulse Generators$145
- ACTIVA$141
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$129
How this compares
$55,020 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 196 neurological surgery providers in North Carolina.
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.
Other neurological surgery in Winston Salem
- Christopher DibbleWinston Salem$94K
- Robert IsaacsDurham$6.6M
- Christopher ShaffreyDurham$4.5M
- Domagoj CoricCharlotte$2.3M
- John ThomasWilmington$1.8M
- Alexander PowersKernersville$1.7M
- Charles BranchAdvance$1.6M
- Paul KimCharlotte$1.5M
- William HunterGastonia$1.3M
- Kevin CahillSupply$1.1M
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.