Gener Dressler, MD
Vascular Surgery · Hickory, NCNPI 1669815239
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.1% of the total across 117 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 36 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 117 payments — averaging $32.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$860
- Endologix LLC$767
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$237
- Kerecis Limited$209
- Stryker$201
- Smith+Nephew$201
- plus $1K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$100%
- Travel & lodging$1825%
- Food & beverage$3,51993%
- Entertainment$672%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 22 | $860 |
| Endologix LLC | 7 | $767 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 6 | $237 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $209 |
| Stryker | 4 | $201 |
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $201 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $168 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $133 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 5 | $118 |
| Next Science LLC | 3 | $86 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $85 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $82 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $71 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $37 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $20 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $18 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $13 |
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.
How this compares
$3,779 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 119 vascular 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cilostazol | 20 | $268 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $121 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 13 | $107 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $103 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $60 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 17 | $47 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Hickory
- Lindsay BoolsHickory$6K
- Aravinda AbeysekeraHickory$5K
- Korsica MebaneHickory$3K
- Frank ArkoCharlotte$2.6M
- Erin MurphyCharlotte$598K
- Robert MendesRaleigh$408K
- Ellen DillavouRaleigh$284K
- Mark FarberChapel Hill$245K
- Hector Crespo SotoCharlotte$178K
- Rebecca KelsoCharlotte$148K
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.