Keri Seymour, DO
Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1952565665
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (47.0%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.5% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $12,111 and has fallen 72.1% since, to $3,377 in 2025. 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 106 payments — averaging $175.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Medtronic$901
- Globus Medical$630
- Covidien LP$623
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$433
- Johnson & Johnson$149
- plus $527 from 8 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $13,382 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.
- Teleflex LLC$27K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,03427%
- Food & beverage$4,82226%
- Education$8,75047%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 53 | $15,353 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $901 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $630 |
| Covidien LP | 18 | $623 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 9 | $433 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $149 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $102 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $52 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $46 |
| Levita Magnetics International Corp | 1 | $38 |
| Abbott | 1 | $28 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $12 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$8,750
- Da Vinci Surgical System$5,792
- ALIF$625
- Signia$340
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$125
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$124
- ProGrip$117
- Endo GIA$116
- ENDO GIA ULTRA$111
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$102
How this compares
$18,615 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClinisolParenteral Amino Acid 15% No.5 | 16 | $3,873 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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.