Has Alden Maier, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $20,301 in general payments to Alden Maier, MD across 35 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Alden Maier, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Alden Maier, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Alden Maier, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Raleigh, NCNPI 1083834212

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $13,521 of the $20,301 with a category attached, or 66.6%. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 89.8% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $18,539 and has fallen 97.9% since, to $397 in 2025.

$20,301in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $580.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$18K
Intuitive Surgical$2K
Davol Inc.$209
Kerecis Limited$150
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.$132
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$23
plus $42 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$13,52167%
Travel & lodging$4,98225%
Food & beverage$1,7779%
Education$210%

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
Edwards Lifesciences	14	$18,240
Intuitive Surgical	11	$1,505
Davol Inc.	4	$209
Kerecis Limited	1	$150
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.	2	$132
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$23
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$23
Covidien LP	1	$19

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.

How this compares

$20,301 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$59,718

Medicare patients

105

Services billed

309

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
Gabapentin	17	$151

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Raleigh

Joseph RubelowskyRaleigh$2.2M
Charles HarrRaleigh$90K
Robert PeytonRaleigh$84K
Judson WilliamsRaleigh$56K
Bryon BoultonRaleigh$40K
Clifton ReadeRaleigh$16K
Curtis AndersonRaleigh$9K
Matthew HartwigDurham$406K
Gregory SmaroffNew Bern$205K
David HarpoleDurham$177K

See the full list for North Carolina →

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.

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