Clifton Reade, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Raleigh, NCNPI 1851457113
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $13,063 of the $16,408 with a category attached, or 79.6%. Medtronic accounts for 82.3% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $7,543 and has fallen 93.2% since, to $513 in 2025.
Across 52 payments — averaging $315.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$13K
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Abiomed$527
- Atricure, Inc.$524
- Cook Medical LLC$286
- Philips North America LLC$256
- plus $212 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,06380%
- Travel & lodging$8575%
- Food & beverage$2,48815%
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) | 12 | $13,499 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 13 | $1,103 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $527 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $524 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $286 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $256 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $125 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $62 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $26 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$13,166
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$975
- Impella$527
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$361
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$344
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$320
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$193
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$152
- (AM5) Lead management$133
- Valiant Navion$128
- Zenith Alpha$123
How this compares
$16,408 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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
- Charles HarrRaleigh$90K
- Robert PeytonRaleigh$84K
- Judson WilliamsRaleigh$56K
- Bryon BoultonRaleigh$40K
- Alden MaierRaleigh$20K
- 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.