Has Cabrini Sutherland, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $33,971 in general payments to Cabrini Sutherland, MD across 54 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Cabrini Sutherland, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Cabrini Sutherland, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Cabrini Sutherland, MD

Surgical Critical Care · Matthews, NCNPI 1730385618

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $29,000 of the $33,971 with a category attached, or 85.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 98.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $12,609, more than ten times the $11 reported in 2019. Among surgical critical care 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.

$33,971in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $629.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$33K
Boston Scientific$201
Lifenet Health$104
Zimmer Biomet$73
Johnson & Johnson$34
Davol Inc.$29
plus $62 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,1549%
Food & beverage$1,8165%
Education$29,00085%

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	42	$33,467
Boston Scientific	2	$201
Lifenet Health	1	$104
Zimmer Biomet	3	$73
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$34
Davol Inc.	1	$29
Medtronic	1	$22
Novo Nordisk	1	$21
CSL Behring	1	$20

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.

How this compares

$33,971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 29 surgical critical care providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$82,607

Medicare patients

195

Services billed

527

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
Ibuprofen	12	$32
Tramadol Hcl	12	$16

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgical critical care in Matthews

Andrew NunnWinston Salem$149K
Jiselle BockShelby$29K
Oluwabukola OlatubosunCharlotte$15K
Thomas GaviganCharlotte$12K
Rafael Torres FajardoCharlotte$7K
Amirreza MotameniRaleigh$5K
Addison MayCharlotte$3K
Timothy NovoselWilmington$2K
Justin CironeCharlotte$2K
William ShillinglawAsheville$2K

See the full list for North Carolina →

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.

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