Erin Baker, MD
Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1578738241
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $171,050 of the $220,690 with a category attached, or 77.5%. AbbVie accounts for 85.0% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 303 payments — averaging $728.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$188K
- Medtronic$16K
- Johnson & Johnson$7K
- Covidien LP$4K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- plus $2K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,8755%
- Speaking & faculty fees$171,05078%
- Travel & lodging$31,50814%
- Food & beverage$7,2573%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 236 | $187,550 |
| Medtronic | 16 | $16,134 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $6,594 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $3,770 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $3,507 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 12 | $1,304 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $844 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $180 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $172 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $144 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $129 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 2 | $123 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $87 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Creon$40,414
- TA$2,450
- Sonicision$1,174
- Da Vinci Surgical System$889
- HemoBlast Bellows$844
- Signia$152
- DA VINCI SP$146
- Valleylab$146
- XARACOLL$124
- FLOSEAL$124
- Emprint$124
- Nanoknife$117
- SIR-Spheres Microspheres$100
How this compares
$220,690 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 970 surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 surgery in Charlotte
- Brant HenifordCharlotte$831K
- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- David IannittiCharlotte$360K
- Gregory StanleyCharlotte$304K
- John GreenCharlotte$202K
- Bradley ThomasCharlotte$162K
- Keith GersinCharlotte$80K
- Timothy KuwadaCharlotte$69K
- Dimitrios StefanidisCharlotte$68K
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.