Brian Jones, MD
Vascular Surgery · Greenville, SCNPI 1295178697
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 82 payments — averaging $57.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$963
- Penumbra, Inc.$582
- Medtronic$566
- Boston Scientific$421
- Abbott$408
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$228
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2505%
- Travel & lodging$1513%
- Food & beverage$3,81080%
- Education$52411%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 13 | $963 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 9 | $582 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $566 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $421 |
| Abbott | 6 | $408 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 5 | $228 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $219 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 6 | $207 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $168 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $134 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $127 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $127 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $75 |
| Venturemed Group, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Imbed Biosciences Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $45 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Cagent Vascular Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Indigo System$469
- Endurant$396
- Glidesheath$335
- Supera peripheral stent system$328
- C3 Delivery System$224
- AngioSeal$168
- Navicross$168
- AZUR$168
- VenaCure 1470 Pro$148
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$136
- Vascular Graft$133
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$132
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$132
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$132
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$132
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$131
- Grafts$127
- Ovation$127
- AFX$127
- Cook$125
How this compares
$4,735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 99 vascular surgery providers in South 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 | 25 | $20,221 |
| EliquisApixaban | 13 | $11,878 |
| Cilostazol | 25 | $381 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 37 | $303 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 31 | $277 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $140 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $112 |
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 | $134 | $20,22125 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 30th percentile of 99 vascular surgery providers in South Carolina.
Other vascular surgery in Greenville
- Sagar GandhiGreenville$443K
- Joseph BlasGreenville$335K
- Mark AndroesGreenville$54K
- John YorkGreenville$42K
- Christopher CarstenGreenville$37K
- Robert PattonGreenville$25K
- Tod HanoverGreenville$22K
- David WilliamsGreenville$18K
- David CullGreenville$8K
- John RossOrangeburg$1M
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.