Chandler Long, MD
Vascular Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1568666055
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (36.4%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cook Incorporated at 29.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $8,419 and has fallen 66.8% since, to $2,795 in 2025.
Across 164 payments — averaging $157.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$8K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$6K
- Medtronic$5K
- Cook Medical LLC$5K
- Bolton Medical Inc$370
- Endologix LLC$272
- plus $1K from 10 others
Across 66 payments — averaging $2475.95 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.
- Boston Scientific$110K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$54K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,75015%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,09024%
- Travel & lodging$6,35025%
- Food & beverage$9,38936%
- Education$2471%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 4 | $7,590 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 65 | $6,041 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 25 | $5,204 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 48 | $5,053 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $370 |
| Endologix LLC | 5 | $272 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $227 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $175 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $163 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $155 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $152 |
| Stimlabs LLC | 1 | $131 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $5 |
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.
- Cook Medical Zenith$6,090
- ENDURANT IIS$4,338
- Cook Medical Peripheral Intervention$1,500
- Zenith Alpha$1,117
- Cook Medical Aortic Intervention$1,112
- Product in Development$1,037
- EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$755
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$671
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$592
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$557
- Cook Medical AAA$532
- Zenith Spiral-Z$483
- EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$345
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$241
- Relay Plus$237
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$212
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$180
- VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$162
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$158
- STRATAFIX$158
How this compares
$25,826 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 119 vascular 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.
Other vascular surgery in Durham
- Kevin SoutherlandDurham$5K
- Cynthia ShortellDurham$3K
- Frank ArkoCharlotte$2.6M
- Erin MurphyCharlotte$598K
- Robert MendesRaleigh$408K
- Ellen DillavouRaleigh$284K
- Mark FarberChapel Hill$245K
- Hector Crespo SotoCharlotte$178K
- Rebecca KelsoCharlotte$148K
- William MarstonChapel Hill$83K
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.