Kevin Friede, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Eden, NCNPI 1205274461
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 42 payments — averaging $155.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$6K
- Abbott$232
- Boston Scientific$176
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$124
- Inari Medical, Inc.$103
- Stryker$58
- plus $108 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,66972%
- Food & beverage$1,63725%
- Education$2083%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 27 | $5,711 |
| Abbott | 2 | $232 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $176 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $103 |
| Stryker | 2 | $58 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $44 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $23 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
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
$6,513 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 180 interventional cardiology 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 69 | $68,504 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 50 | $62,996 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 30 | $45,212 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 23 | $24,929 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 18 | $24,114 |
| Prasugrel Hcl | 17 | $1,567 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 97 | $1,002 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 60 | $768 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 50 | $437 |
| Carvedilol | 46 | $373 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 38 | $344 |
| Losartan Potassium | 42 | $336 |
| Furosemide | 48 | $332 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 33 | $280 |
| Ezetimibe | 26 | $266 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Eden
- Ravish SacharRaleigh$10.1M
- George AdamsGarner$5.2M
- Paul MahoneyGreenville$3.9M
- Oluseun AlliCharlotte$2.3M
- Patrick SimpsonPinehurst$1.6M
- Matthew CavenderChapel Hill$1.5M
- Rajesh SwaminathanDurham$1.4M
- Steven FilbyPinehurst$1.3M
- John PasquiniCharlotte$1.3M
- James ZidarRaleigh$1.1M
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.