Brian Schmidt, MD
Surgery · Concord, NCNPI 1972579019
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,535 of the $2,328 with a category attached, or 65.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 83.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,921 and has fallen 96.1% since, to $74 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $1,719.
Across 22 payments — averaging $105.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Boston Scientific$125
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$56
- Davol Inc.$37
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$33
- Novo Nordisk$30
- plus $96 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,53566%
- Food & beverage$77933%
- Gifts$141%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $1,952 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $125 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $30 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,765
How this compares
$2,328 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $76 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $36 |
| Propranolol Hcl | 23 | $21 |
| Diazepam | 12 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Concord
- Jesse SulzerConcord$55K
- 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.