Has Markus Scherer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $526,029 in general payments to Markus Scherer, MD across 792 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Markus Scherer, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Markus Scherer, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Markus Scherer, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Charlotte, NCNPI 1699771790

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.4%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 40.0% of the total. Among cardiovascular disease 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.

$526,029in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 792 payments — averaging $664.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$210K
Boston Scientific$118K
Philips North America LLC$77K
Edwards Lifesciences$53K
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$39K
Heartflow, Inc.$28K
plus $478 from 6 others

$155,706in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $12,975 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.

Heartflow, Inc.$146K
Caption Health, Inc.$6K
Philips North America LLC$3K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$244,14746%
Speaking & faculty fees$189,43236%
Grants$950%
Travel & lodging$68,06713%
Food & beverage$24,1105%
Gifts$1790%

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
Abbott	279	$210,184
Boston Scientific	220	$118,161
Philips North America LLC	56	$76,738
Edwards Lifesciences	64	$53,071
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	57	$39,495
Heartflow, Inc.	108	$27,902
GE HealthCare	3	$128
Canon Medical Informatics, Inc.	1	$116
Abiomed	1	$107
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$88
Atricure, Inc.	1	$26
Medtronic	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.

WATCHMAN Access System$67,156
MitraClip$60,460
Mitra Clip system$52,053
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$50,795
(9520) IGT Devices Undivided$44,577
MitraClip System$34,150
Watchman$30,838
TRICLIP$18,923
FFRct$17,223
WATCHMAN FLX$16,731
IGT Devices Und$12,149
ACUSON Origin Diagnostic Ultrasound System$9,994
(9148) ICE 3D$9,373
SOMATOM Force$6,655
ACUSON SC2000 Diagnostic Ultrasound System$5,780
(9525) Intracardiac Und$5,765
Educ Ultrasound$3,850
AMPLATZER AMULET$2,625
SOMATOM Pro.Pulse$2,272
EVOQUE$625

How this compares

$526,029 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$84,429

Medicare patients

483

Services billed

9,650

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.

Other cardiovascular disease in Charlotte

Michael RinaldiCharlotte$722K
Sanjeev GulatiCharlotte$406K
Richard BrowneCharlotte$379K
Rohit MehtaCharlotte$189K
Brian PowellCharlotte$160K
Nicole Cyrille-SupervilleCharlotte$115K
Noreen KellyCharlotte$84K
Dermot PhelanCharlotte$76K
Charles SimontonCharlotte$73K
Satish MisraCharlotte$64K

See the full list for North Carolina →

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.

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