Christopher Murter, MD
Vascular Surgery · Virginia Beach, VANPI 1497140016
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.6%), grants and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 67.0% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 226 payments — averaging $123.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$19K
- Abbott$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Penumbra, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$749
- Endologix LLC$705
- plus $4K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$10,21037%
- Travel & lodging$1,2044%
- Food & beverage$16,01358%
- Education$3751%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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) | 91 | $18,617 |
| Abbott | 12 | $1,212 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $1,195 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 15 | $1,061 |
| Stryker | 14 | $749 |
| Endologix LLC | 10 | $705 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 14 | $641 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $587 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 6 | $422 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $384 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $375 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 18 | $337 |
| BD | 2 | $219 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $171 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $166 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $142 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $131 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $120 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $97 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $80 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $71 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $36 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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$11,088
- ENDURANT IIS$4,088
- Indigo System$573
- Valiant Captivia$432
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$365
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$337
- ESPRIT$293
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$281
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$263
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$259
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$233
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$198
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$198
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$194
- JETI$179
- SYMPHONY CATHETER$171
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$170
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$167
- GORE DRYSEAL FLEX Introducer Sheath$165
- LIMFLOW SYSTEM$159
How this compares
$27,801 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 143 vascular surgery providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 54 | $605 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 37 | $336 |
| Cilostazol | 32 | $181 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 25 | $97 |
| Prednisone | 15 | $29 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $26 |
| Lorazepam | 13 | $16 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Virginia Beach
- Jean PannetonVirginia Beach$1.3M
- Samuel SteermanVirginia Beach$252K
- Hosam El SayedVirginia Beach$60K
- Siddharth BhendeVirginia Beach$56K
- Richard DemasiVirginia Beach$56K
- Priyam VyasVirginia Beach$15K
- Sadaf AhanchiVirginia Beach$12K
- John DeitrickRichmond$684K
- Rasesh ShahChesapeake$465K
- David DexterNorfolk$404K
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.