Alfredo Guerron Cruz
Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1982927281
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 122 payments — averaging $449.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Covidien LP$19K
- Asensus Surgical, Inc.$9K
- Medtronic$9K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$7K
- Biom'up SA$5K
- Teleflex LLC$3K
- plus $3K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$24,95045%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,71036%
- Travel & lodging$6,82212%
- Food & beverage$3,3666%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Covidien LP | 49 | $18,544 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 6 | $9,169 |
| Medtronic | 22 | $8,984 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $6,620 |
| Biom'up SA | 9 | $5,195 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $3,000 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 18 | $2,714 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 5 | $172 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $148 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $102 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $70 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $52 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Senhance Surgical Robotics System$7,861
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$6,600
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$6,600
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$6,600
- HEMOBLAST$5,082
- ProGrip$4,873
- Dextile$4,200
- WECK EFx Shield Port Site Closure System$3,000
- Sonicision$2,925
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,587
- Signia$2,485
- SurgiSleeve$2,450
- Senhance Manipulator Arm$1,200
- Senhance Cockpit$1,200
- Senhance Node$1,200
- LigaSure$766
- iDrive$166
- XARACOLL$148
- ENDO GIA ULTRA$128
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$102
How this compares
$54,848 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 970 surgery providers in North Carolina.
Other surgery in Durham
- Jacob SchroderDurham$2.6M
- Jacob GreenbergDurham$1.3M
- Dana PortenierDurham$702K
- Paul MoscaDurham$420K
- Phillip ShadduckDurham$348K
- Jin YooDurham$328K
- Sabino ZaniDurham$295K
- Andrew BarbasDurham$150K
- Dan BlazerDurham$139K
- Christopher MantyhDurham$132K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.