Jacob Greenberg, MD
Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1801973888
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (28.8%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 75.3% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,190, 2.8 times the $3,649 reported in 2019. Among surgery 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 108 payments — averaging $267.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$22K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Covidien LP$521
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$454
- VB Spine LLC$238
- plus $211 from 5 others
Across 55 payments — averaging $23,447 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.
- Medtronic$1.2M
- Covidien LP$55K
- Davol Inc.$15K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,29025%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,90427%
- Travel & lodging$8,33029%
- Food & beverage$4,35115%
- Education$1,0003%
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 | 62 | $21,751 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 23 | $3,375 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $2,324 |
| Covidien LP | 9 | $521 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 6 | $454 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $238 |
| Stryker | 1 | $81 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $46 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $31 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $23 |
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$2,931
- Quartex$1,235
- RISE$1,090
- LigaSure$269
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$238
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$207
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$171
- Parietex$164
- Signia$134
- ProGrip$126
How this compares
$28,876 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 970 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.
Other surgery in Durham
- Dana PortenierDurham$702K
- Phillip ShadduckDurham$222K
- Jin YooDurham$179K
- Christopher MantyhDurham$132K
- Sabino ZaniDurham$113K
- Alfredo Guerron CruzDurham$55K
- Jacob SchroderDurham$47K
- Christopher MyersDurham$36K
- Dan BlazerDurham$34K
- Brant HenifordCharlotte$831K
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.