Augustine Eze, MD
Surgery · Gastonia, NCNPI 1992703813
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $55,660 of the $60,533 with a category attached, or 92.0%. Convatec Inc. accounts for 72.2% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $48,628, more than ten times the $392 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 79 payments — averaging $766.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Convatec Inc.$44K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$13K
- Amgen$505
- Johnson & Johnson$465
- Philips North America LLC$464
- Medtronic$385
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3251%
- Food & beverage$4,4867%
- Education$620%
- Other$55,66092%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Convatec Inc. | 15 | $43,712 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $12,788 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $505 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $465 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $464 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $385 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $373 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $267 |
| Novartis | 2 | $219 |
| Abbott | 1 | $162 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 7 | $157 |
| Vertex | 1 | $140 |
| Stryker | 1 | $137 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $135 |
| Stability Biologics, LLC | 1 | $123 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $110 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Venclose Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Catheter Precision, Inc. FKA Ra Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $13 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $6 |
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.
- InnovaMatrix AC$43,388
- VenaCure 1470 Pro$12,760
- KRYSTEXXA$505
- ENDURANT IIS$385
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$267
- XARELTO$215
- Zenith Spiral-Z$175
- ESPRIT$162
- ARTIX MT$137
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$135
- AQUACEL AG$128
- Turbo Elite$124
- (6582) Visions 035$124
- ONPATTRO$122
- (BS0) Mechanical Atherectomy$120
- ESOPHYX$110
- Zilver PTX$106
How this compares
$60,533 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 970 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 23 | $18,895 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 22 | $149 |
| Diazepam | 20 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $465 | $18,89523 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 970 surgery providers in North Carolina.
Other surgery in Gastonia
- Bryan PayneGastonia$32K
- Brant HenifordCharlotte$831K
- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- Dana PortenierDurham$702K
- Paul EnochsCary$595K
- David IannittiCharlotte$360K
- William HopeWilmington$350K
- Martyn KnowlesRaleigh$311K
- Walter BoydGreenville$311K
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.