Allen Tanner, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Durham, NCNPI 1720333859
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $284 of the $322 with a category attached, or 88.1%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by TELA Bio, Inc. at 38.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $140 and has fallen 87.8% since, to $17 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgical critical care clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $712.
Across 11 payments — averaging $29.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- TELA Bio, Inc.$124
- Z-medica, LLC$38
- Kls-martin L.p.$37
- Acell, Inc.$29
- Medtronic$22
- Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$20
- plus $52 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3812%
- Food & beverage$28488%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $124 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $37 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Encision Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$322 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 29 surgical critical care 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $64 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical critical care in Durham
- Patricia Martinez QuinonesDurham$2K
- Courtney SommerDurham$111
- Andrew NunnWinston Salem$149K
- Cabrini SutherlandMatthews$34K
- Jiselle BockShelby$29K
- Oluwabukola OlatubosunCharlotte$15K
- Thomas GaviganCharlotte$12K
- Rafael Torres FajardoCharlotte$7K
- Amirreza MotameniRaleigh$5K
- Addison MayCharlotte$3K
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.