Debra Sudan, MD
Transplant Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1902856651
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (50.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Shire North American Group Inc accounts for 61.7% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,926 and has fallen 57.9% since, to $2,072 in 2025.
Across 13 payments — averaging $608.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Shire North American Group Inc$5K
- Transmedics, Inc.$3K
- Novartis$428
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$50
Across 227 payments — averaging $4672.57 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.
- Transmedics, Inc.$386K
- Organox Ltd$175K
- Novartis$171K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$110K
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$73K
- Vectivbio AG$72K
- plus $74K from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00051%
- Travel & lodging$3,66846%
- Food & beverage$2413%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shire North American Group Inc | 7 | $4,876 |
| Transmedics, Inc. | 3 | $2,555 |
| Novartis | 2 | $428 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
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.
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$2,555
- GATTEX$798
How this compares
Too few transplant surgery providers in North Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 transplant surgery in Durham
- Meshka AndersonGreenville$2K
- Claire MorganGreenville$1K
- Robert HarlandGreenville$474
- Giuseppe OrlandoWinston Salem$376
- Komal GurungWinston Salem$371
- Robert StrattaWinston Salem$305
- Kryscilla YangGreenville$16
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.