Kelly Bergen, NP
Acute Care · Gastonia, NCNPI 1093183642
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,322 of the $7,597 with a category attached, or 83.2%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 28.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,905, 3.8 times the $771 reported in 2021. Among acute care clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 130 payments — averaging $58.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC$132
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$108
- plus $364 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$99113%
- Food & beverage$6,32283%
- Education$2844%
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 | 34 | $2,128 |
| Abbott | 33 | $1,989 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 18 | $1,637 |
| Medtronic | 28 | $1,239 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $132 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 7 | $108 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $33 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 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.
- Carto 3$1,337
- WATCHMAN Access System$994
- AVEIR$616
- NA$380
- Watchman$231
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$175
- Confirm Rx$162
- PulseSelect$160
- ENSITE PRECISION$142
- Sotalol Hydrochloride$119
- MitraClip$119
- AMPLATZER$107
- Inspire$106
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$105
How this compares
$7,597 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 312 acute care 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 272 | $244,009 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 52 | $47,133 |
| Dofetilide | 62 | $10,545 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 106 | $3,568 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 263 | $3,404 |
| Mexiletine Hcl | 15 | $2,811 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 121 | $1,570 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 51 | $771 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 58 | $732 |
| Potassium Chloride | 18 | $564 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 44 | $325 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 49 | $283 |
| Carvedilol | 18 | $199 |
| Digoxin | 11 | $196 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 32 | $106 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Gastonia
- Kelly HarrisGastonia$5K
- Emily StallardGastonia$3K
- Thu Thuy Thi VuGastonia$2K
- Megan WilkinsonGastonia$2K
- Barry WestmorelandGastonia$2K
- Benjamin HocuttGreenville$25K
- Matthew KuhnPinehurst$16K
- Robin TruppApex$14K
- Suzanne HartmannRaleigh$12K
- Leigh CasperSalisbury$12K
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.