Has David Fitzgerald, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,464 in general payments to David Fitzgerald, MD across 151 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean David Fitzgerald, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about David Fitzgerald, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

David Fitzgerald, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1437134475

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Medtronic accounts for 66.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,235 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $162 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $16,673.

$7,464in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 151 payments — averaging $49.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$5K
Boston Scientific$1K
Abbott$648
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$353
Biosense Webster, Inc.$338
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$39
plus $66 from 3 others

$39,746in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $1168.99 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.

Abbott$24K
Medtronic$16K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,67749%
Food & beverage$3,78851%

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)	90	$4,956
Boston Scientific	8	$1,064
Abbott	26	$648
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	8	$353
Biosense Webster, Inc.	12	$338
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	4	$39
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$28
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$19
Elutia, Inc.	1	$19

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.

Arctic Front$2,077
DIAMONDTEMP BIDIRECTIONAL ABLATION CATHETER$779
GENERAL - THERAPIES$744
Carto 3 System$202
PRECISION XTRA$143
Micra$142
Claria MRI$108

How this compares

$7,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 98 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$88,604

Medicare patients

537

Services billed

1,594

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
EliquisApixaban	994	$866,811
XareltoRivaroxaban	354	$325,916
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	53	$61,658
Flecainide Acetate	703	$29,524
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	21	$18,915
Dofetilide	82	$15,834
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	545	$12,193
Ranolazine ErRanolazine	144	$11,169
Amiodarone Hcl	332	$5,846
Metoprolol Succinate	291	$3,450
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate	14	$2,908
Propafenone Hcl	56	$2,531
Losartan Potassium	156	$1,694
Midodrine Hcl	12	$1,309
Amlodipine Besylate	167	$1,128

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Winston Salem

Lai Chow KokWinston Salem$74K
Natalie BradfordWinston Salem$57K
George WaitsWinston Salem$55K
Prashant BhaveWinston Salem$47K
Michael DruckerWinston Salem$37K
Kashif ChaudhryWinston Salem$19K
Rafael CavalcantiWinston Salem$19K
Takeki SuzukiWinston Salem$16K
Nicholas CostaWinston Salem$15K
Mark MitchellWinston Salem$15K

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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.

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