Has Edward Kincaid, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,174 in general payments to Edward Kincaid, MD across 63 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 Edward Kincaid, 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 Edward Kincaid, 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.

Edward Kincaid, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1285617985

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $8,019 of the $10,174 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 76.8% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,899 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $323 in 2025.

$10,174in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 63 payments — averaging $161.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$8K
Medtronic$1K
Edwards Lifesciences$794
Abiomed$157
Boston Scientific$38

$24,808in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $2067.29 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.

Medtronic$16K
Atricure, Inc.$9K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$8,01979%
Food & beverage$2,15521%

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
Atricure, Inc.	15	$7,809
Medtronic(2 entities)	13	$1,376
Edwards Lifesciences	28	$794
Abiomed	6	$157
Boston Scientific	1	$38

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.

SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$7,274
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$6,281
Mosaic$1,010
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$831
DISSECTOR$831
Avalus$238
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$172

How this compares

$10,174 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

Part B allowed, 2024

$179,205

Medicare patients

166

Services billed

322

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	25	$12

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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