Charles Bush
Vascular Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1619361680
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $5,000 of the $8,238 with a category attached, or 60.7%. Medtronic accounts for 76.7% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,216 and has fallen 80.4% since, to $1,025 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $9,151.
Across 47 payments — averaging $175.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$6K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$422
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$327
- Endologix LLC$314
- BD$170
- Argon Medical Devices, Inc.$162
- plus $525 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$5,00061%
- Travel & lodging$4485%
- Food & beverage$2,05725%
- Education$3284%
- Other$4055%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 16 | $6,318 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $422 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $327 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $314 |
| BD | 1 | $170 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $34 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $32 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| Stryker | 1 | $20 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $13 |
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$5,000
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$526
- ACell$405
- Alto Abdominal Stent Graft System$312
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$262
- RotarexS 6 F x 135 cm$170
- Clot Management$162
- Indigo System$143
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$131
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$131
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$131
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$131
- Abre$121
How this compares
$8,238 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 72 vascular surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 22 | $17,970 |
| Cilostazol | 38 | $471 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 44 | $316 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 73 | $254 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 54 | $163 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $99 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Louisville
- Amit DwivediLouisville$406K
- Abindra SigdelLouisville$84K
- Ferenc NagyLouisville$47K
- Gregory SchmiederLouisville$44K
- Erik WayneLouisville$25K
- Matthew JungLouisville$24K
- Nancy ClarkLouisville$19K
- Ashlee VinyardLouisville$12K
- Salem GeorgeLouisville$10K
- Nathaniel LiuLouisville$10K
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.