Curtis Anderson, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Raleigh, NCNPI 1801870357
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC at 37.7% of the total.
Across 97 payments — averaging $97.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC$4K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Arthrex$698
- Abiomed$525
- Atricure, Inc.$361
- plus $860 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,58659%
- Food & beverage$3,82641%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 21 | $3,545 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 20 | $2,384 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $1,040 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $698 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $525 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $361 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 4 | $169 |
| Abbott | 6 | $147 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $133 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $125 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 14 | $116 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $26 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $11 |
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
$9,412 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 13 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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
- Clifton ReadeRaleigh$16K
- 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.