Eyal Ben-Arie, MD
Vascular Surgery · Atlanta, GANPI 1770625832
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (50.3%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cvrx, Inc. at 47.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,186 and has fallen 86.0% since, to $724 in 2025.
Across 96 payments — averaging $147.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cvrx, Inc.$7K
- Globus Medical$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$622
- Cook Medical LLC$369
- Avinger Inc.$292
- plus $1K from 15 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $835.43 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.
- Cook Research Incorporated$6K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,10050%
- Travel & lodging$2,12315%
- Food & beverage$4,89135%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cvrx, Inc. | 22 | $6,710 |
| Globus Medical | 6 | $2,652 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 24 | $2,231 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $622 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $369 |
| Avinger Inc. | 5 | $292 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $253 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $144 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $118 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $103 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $101 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $93 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $90 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $84 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $74 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $44 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 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.
- Barostim Neo System$6,430
- ALIF$2,499
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$855
- Indigo System$622
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$332
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$318
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$250
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$148
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$148
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$148
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$148
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$144
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$144
- Zenith Alpha$128
- PANTHERIS$119
- Cook Medical Aortic Intervention$116
How this compares
$14,114 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 176 vascular surgery providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 93 | $700 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 15 | $213 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 38 | $129 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Atlanta
- Siddharth PatelAtlanta$303K
- Walaya Methodius-RayfordAtlanta$79K
- Andrew UnzeitigAtlanta$46K
- Yazan DuwayriAtlanta$44K
- Anumeha WhisenhuntAtlanta$33K
- James ChangAtlanta$31K
- Chad AlemanAtlanta$21K
- Olamide AlabiAtlanta$19K
- Jorge CorsoAtlanta$18K
- Peter H DoublerAtlanta$15K
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.