Gabor Winkler, MD
Vascular Surgery · Germantown, TNNPI 1558362970
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,425 of the $10,286 with a category attached, or 81.9%. It is spread thinly across 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 153 payments — averaging $67.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$558
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$522
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,86118%
- Food & beverage$8,42582%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 13 | $2,236 |
| Medtronic | 22 | $1,537 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 11 | $1,399 |
| Abbott | 13 | $1,039 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 10 | $558 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $522 |
| Endologix LLC | 4 | $439 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $337 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $306 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $284 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 15 | $280 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $251 |
| BD | 2 | $228 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $156 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 4 | $139 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $128 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 8 | $120 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $28 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $25 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Avinger Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $13 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $13 |
| Bolton Medical 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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$2,990
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$1,135
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,135
- Indigo System$817
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$720
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$720
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$720
- HawkOne$436
- ESPRIT$413
- Penumbra System$392
- ALIF$327
- Diamondback Peripheral$258
- RotarexS 6 F x 135 cm$246
- ENDURANT IIS$240
- Ovation iX Iliac Stent Graft$236
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$236
- ANGIO-SEAL$235
- Irrisept$156
- XACT$143
- ABSOLUTE PRO$142
How this compares
$10,286 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 117 vascular surgery providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 154 | $1,335 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 30 | $223 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 17 | $131 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Germantown
- Anton Dias PereraGermantown$832K
- Michael CoreyGermantown$33K
- Prateek GuptaGermantown$19K
- Daniel AltermanGermantown$7K
- Alissa HartGermantown$7K
- Daniel ClairNashville$993K
- Bryan FisherHendersonville$417K
- Christopher LesarChattanooga$311K
- Billy KimMount Juliet$140K
- William HarrisChattanooga$122K
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.