George Bodziock, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1316392665
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (40.0%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 57.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $25,174 and has fallen 85.2% since, to $3,737 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 230 payments — averaging $233.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$31K
- Abbott$8K
- Boston Scientific$6K
- Philips North America LLC$6K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$2K
- Biotronik Inc.$1K
- plus $447 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4751%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9002%
- Grants$21,50040%
- Travel & lodging$21,20539%
- Food & beverage$7,60014%
- Education$2,0274%
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 | 84 | $30,772 |
| Abbott | 67 | $7,892 |
| Boston Scientific | 34 | $5,829 |
| Philips North America LLC | 11 | $5,615 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 17 | $2,090 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 10 | $1,063 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $199 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $168 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $66 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
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.
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$5,318
- AVEIR$3,747
- Micra$2,551
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,330
- ENSITE PRECISION$1,655
- Carto 3$1,521
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$861
- VersaCross Access Solution$689
- PAMIRA$688
- Solia$688
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$343
- QUADRA ASSURA$240
- ENSITE$238
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$199
- PulseSelect$137
- AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$127
- QDOT MICRO Catheter$123
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$119
- NUVISION ICE CATHETER$119
- WATCHMAN Access System$104
How this compares
$53,707 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 30 | $35,756 |
| Dofetilide | 13 | $810 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 26 | $583 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 15 | $279 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 16 | $278 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 20 | $108 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Winston Salem
- Dalane KitzmanWinston Salem$199K
- Patrick KozakWinston Salem$44K
- R WilliamsDurham$2.1M
- Marat FudimDurham$902K
- Jonathan PicciniDurham$767K
- Michael RinaldiCharlotte$722K
- Markus SchererCharlotte$526K
- Robert MentzDurham$489K
- Sean PokorneyMorganton$477K
- Adrian HernandezDurham$409K
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.