Christopher Byrne, MD
Vascular Surgery · Bangor, MENPI 1649430315
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,120 of the $1,677 with a category attached, or 66.8%. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. accounts for 85.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,392 and has fallen 84.8% since, to $212 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in ME, where the typical reported total is $3,260.
Across 18 payments — averaging $93.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$73
- BD$63
- Penumbra, Inc.$50
- Veryan Medical Incorporated$34
- Abbott$23
Across 3 payments — averaging $2025.00 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.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$6K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,12067%
- Food & beverage$55733%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $1,433 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $73 |
| BD | 1 | $63 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 4 | $50 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $34 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
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
$1,677 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 30 vascular surgery providers in Maine.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 11 | $189 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Bangor
- Larry FlanaganBangor$8K
- Peter BeaulieuBangor$5K
- Lisa FloydBangor$4K
- Andrew SherwoodBangor$3K
- Robert CambriaBangor$840
- Michael BiancoBangor$150
- Elizabeth PlessnerBangor$15
- Nathan AransonS Portland$460K
- John CarsonScarborough$26K
- Truc TaPortland$19K
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.