Hai Salfity, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Durham, NCNPI 1164710174
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $9,500 of the $15,298 with a category attached, or 62.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 88.3% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,336, 4.6 times the $1,578 reported in 2021.
Across 42 payments — averaging $364.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- Medtronic$2K
- Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc$186
- Atricure, Inc.$50
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$16
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,80131%
- Food & beverage$9836%
- Education$9,50062%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 30 | $13,504 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $1,541 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $186 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$7,582
- ION$3,000
- DA VINCI SP$2,500
- Signia$1,309
- ALIYA SYSTEM$186
How this compares
$15,298 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Durham
- Matthew HartwigDurham$406K
- David HarpoleDurham$177K
- Thomas D AmicoDurham$94K
- Stafford BaldersonDurham$25K
- Herbert LyerlyDurham$24K
- Betty TongDurham$16K
- Sara NajmehDurham$8K
- Joseph RubelowskyRaleigh$2.2M
- Gregory SmaroffNew Bern$205K
- Carmelo MilanoLumberton$169K
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.