Charles Harr, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Raleigh, NCNPI 1942201595
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $76,653 of the $90,018 with a category attached, or 85.2%. Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. accounts for 83.1% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $38,486, 3.3 times the $11,635 reported in 2019. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 227 payments — averaging $396.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$75K
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Edwards Lifesciences$4K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC$742
- Heartflow, Inc.$494
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5002%
- Travel & lodging$76,65385%
- Food & beverage$11,85213%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 133 | $74,798 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 34 | $6,806 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 30 | $3,737 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 5 | $2,371 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 6 | $742 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 4 | $494 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $343 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $300 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $155 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $119 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $70 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $24 |
| BD | 1 | $22 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $3 |
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.
- Artis Q$8,872
- Da Vinci Surgical System$6,277
- Other - Miscellaneous$2,331
- Artis pheno$882
- SOMATOM Pro.Pulse$694
- AI-Rad Companion Brain MR$489
- FFRct$423
- Spin$323
- Impella$275
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$155
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$155
- Multix Impact$113
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$106
- Artis icono floor$101
How this compares
$90,018 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Carolina.
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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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Raleigh
- Joseph RubelowskyRaleigh$2.2M
- Robert PeytonRaleigh$84K
- Judson WilliamsRaleigh$56K
- Bryon BoultonRaleigh$40K
- Alden MaierRaleigh$20K
- Clifton ReadeRaleigh$16K
- Curtis AndersonRaleigh$9K
- Matthew HartwigDurham$406K
- Gregory SmaroffNew Bern$205K
- David HarpoleDurham$177K
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.