Kecia Simmons
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New Bern, NCNPI 1497903884
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 275 payments — averaging $24.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$794
- Organogenesis Inc.$419
- Abbott$248
- Cook Medical LLC$118
- plus $547 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$791%
- Food & beverage$4,76171%
- Education$1,81927%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 178 | $2,676 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $1,857 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 39 | $794 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 6 | $419 |
| Abbott | 14 | $248 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $118 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $74 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $48 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Avinger Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| BD | 1 | $19 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $16 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $13 |
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.
How this compares
$6,659 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Carolina.
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Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in New Bern
- Gregory SmaroffNew Bern$206K
- Matthew HartwigDurham$4.2M
- Joseph RubelowskyRaleigh$2.2M
- Mark GrohAsheville$1.7M
- Carmelo MilanoLumberton$884K
- George HughesLumberton$776K
- Thomas EganChapel Hill$600K
- Thomas GleasonAsheville$468K
- Judson WilliamsRaleigh$416K
- Carlos Anciano GranadilloGreenville$402K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.