Judson Williams, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Raleigh, NCNPI 1831363985
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $50,155 of the $56,428 with a category attached, or 88.9%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 58.0% of the total.
Across 94 payments — averaging $600.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$33K
- BD$20K
- Baxter Healthcare$2K
- Abiomed$762
- Medtronic$335
- Atricure, Inc.$127
- plus $531 from 12 others
Across 25 payments — averaging $14,385 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.
- Solventum Corporation$145K
- Vascular Graft Solutions Inc$115K
- Atricure, Inc.$89K
- KCI USA, Inc.$8K
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50,15589%
- Travel & lodging$1,9854%
- Food & beverage$4,2888%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 46 | $32,713 |
| BD | 6 | $20,342 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $1,617 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $762 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $335 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $127 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 3 | $119 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $61 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $55 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Braemar Manufacturing, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- TISSEEL$1,330
- Impella$762
- Valiant Captivia$128
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$112
How this compares
$56,428 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 Raleigh
- Joseph RubelowskyRaleigh$2.2M
- Charles HarrRaleigh$90K
- Robert PeytonRaleigh$84K
- Bryon BoultonRaleigh$40K
- Alden MaierRaleigh$20K
- Clifton ReadeRaleigh$16K
- Curtis AndersonRaleigh$9K
- Matthew HartwigDurham$406K
- Gregory SmaroffNew Bern$205K
- David HarpoleDurham$177K
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.