Behzad Farivar, MD
Vascular Surgery · Charlottesville, VANPI 1639339351
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (52.9%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bolton Medical Inc at 33.0% of the total.
Across 174 payments — averaging $211.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bolton Medical Inc$12K
- Medtronic$11K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$6K
- Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$3K
- Cook Incorporated$1K
- GE HealthCare$1K
- plus $2K from 10 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $8951.84 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.
- Shape Memory Medical Inc.$39K
- Bolton Medical Inc$18K
- Cook Research Incorporated$6K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,50018%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,1008%
- Travel & lodging$19,45353%
- Food & beverage$7,43520%
- Education$3151%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bolton Medical Inc | 21 | $12,160 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 57 | $11,133 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 52 | $6,112 |
| Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated | 1 | $3,100 |
| Cook Incorporated | 3 | $1,117 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $1,038 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 3 | $646 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 19 | $600 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $191 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 4 | $121 |
| Abbott | 1 | $104 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $103 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $82 |
| Centerline Biomedical Inc. | 2 | $80 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $75 |
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.
- ENDURANT IIS$8,740
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$4,993
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$3,250
- Zenith Alpha$1,268
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$1,177
- Grafts$961
- TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$934
- EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$869
- IMPEDE EMBOLIZATION PLUG$594
- Valiant Captivia$588
- Product in Development$475
- Heli-FX EndoAnchor System$409
- Relay Grafts$381
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$283
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$276
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$247
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$212
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$188
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$164
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$151
How this compares
$36,803 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 143 vascular surgery providers in Virginia.
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 vascular surgery in Charlottesville
- Margaret TracciCharlottesville$39K
- Martha WeaverCharlottesville$19K
- Carlin WilliamsCharlottesville$19K
- Ankur AggarwalCharlottesville$14K
- William ClouseCharlottesville$12K
- Jean PannetonVirginia Beach$1.3M
- John DeitrickRichmond$684K
- Rasesh ShahChesapeake$465K
- David DexterNorfolk$404K
- Samuel SteermanVirginia Beach$252K
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.