Has Joseph Winget, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $982 in general payments to Joseph Winget, MD across 6 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Joseph Winget, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Joseph Winget, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Joseph Winget, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · South Burlington, VTNPI 1275632267

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $749 of the $982 with a category attached, or 76.3%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Medtronic. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in VT, where the typical reported total is $1,258.

$982in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $163.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$982

$148,232in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 201 payments — averaging $737.48 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$124K
Biotronik Inc.$24K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$74976%
Food & beverage$23224%

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	6	$982

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.

Micra$883

How this compares

$982 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 27 cardiovascular disease providers in Vermont.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$173,427

Medicare patients

1,969

Services billed

3,303

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	343	$453,294
XareltoRivaroxaban	61	$79,735
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	51	$74,019
Dofetilide	80	$18,945
JardianceEmpagliflozin	17	$15,226
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	176	$4,749
Metoprolol Succinate	189	$3,607
Mexiletine Hcl	13	$2,884
Flecainide Acetate	69	$2,418
Atorvastatin Calcium	128	$1,801
Amiodarone Hcl	46	$1,464
Tiadylt ErDiltiazem Hcl	15	$911
SotalolSotalol Hcl	34	$787
Diltiazem 24hr ErDiltiazem Hcl	31	$785
Metoprolol Tartrate	96	$768

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other cardiovascular disease in South Burlington

Martin LewinterSouth Burlington$15K
Peter VanburenSouth Burlington$7K
Cara DimasiSouth Burlington$41
Harold DauermanBurlington$248K
Daniel LustgartenBurlington$171K
Nicole HabelMiddlebury$130K
Shubash AdhikariBurlington$59K
Adipong BrickshawanaBurlington$37K
Thomas GillilandBurlington$35K
Benjamin IrvineBurlington$11K

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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.

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