Lindsay Bools, MD
Vascular Surgery · Hickory, NCNPI 1346408101
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,292 of the $6,144 with a category attached, or 86.1%. It is spread thinly across 40 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,568 and has fallen 70.0% since, to $772 in 2025.
Across 144 payments — averaging $42.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Endologix LLC$1K
- Abbott$410
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$370
- Cook Medical LLC$328
- Johnson & Johnson$279
- plus $2K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$81513%
- Food & beverage$5,29286%
- Entertainment$361%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 6 | $1,167 |
| Endologix LLC | 9 | $1,161 |
| Abbott | 8 | $410 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $370 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 13 | $328 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 17 | $279 |
| Smith+Nephew | 15 | $270 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $269 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $256 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $238 |
| Stryker | 3 | $172 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $127 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $105 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $85 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $65 |
| Venclose Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Avinger Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $43 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $41 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $39 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Veryan Medical Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,130
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,130
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$674
- Ovation iX Iliac Stent Graft$674
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$647
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$235
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$216
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$216
- ESPRIT$202
- ENDOCROSS Device$183
- Torus Stent Graft System$183
- ARTIX MT$119
- Azur CX Detachable$105
How this compares
$6,144 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 119 vascular 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cilostazol | 87 | $1,150 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 89 | $581 |
| Famotidine | 17 | $200 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 15 | $163 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Hickory
- Aravinda AbeysekeraHickory$5K
- Gener DresslerHickory$4K
- Korsica MebaneHickory$3K
- Frank ArkoCharlotte$2.6M
- Erin MurphyCharlotte$598K
- Robert MendesRaleigh$408K
- Ellen DillavouRaleigh$284K
- Mark FarberChapel Hill$245K
- Hector Crespo SotoCharlotte$178K
- Rebecca KelsoCharlotte$148K
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.