Has Matthew Hartwig, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $405,913 in general payments to Matthew Hartwig, MD across 416 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 Matthew Hartwig, 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 Matthew Hartwig, 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.

Matthew Hartwig, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Durham, NCNPI 1912174780

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (30.6%), education and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 61.3% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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.

$405,913in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 416 payments — averaging $975.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$249K
Transmedics, Inc.$68K
CSL Behring$38K
Medtronic$16K
Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$14K
United Therapeutics Corporation$7K
plus $14K from 12 others

$3,801,114in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 139 payments — averaging $27,346 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.

Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$2.8M
Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$515K
Transmedics, Inc.$437K
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$30K
Bridge To Life Ltd$20K
United Therapeutics Corporation$6K
plus $1K from 1 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$113,17028%
Speaking & faculty fees$124,35031%
Travel & lodging$39,36110%
Food & beverage$14,9984%
Education$113,85028%
Gifts$1830%

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	324	$248,668
Transmedics, Inc.	7	$67,956
CSL Behring	4	$37,735
Medtronic	17	$16,286
Paragonix Technologies, Inc.	22	$14,208
United Therapeutics Corporation	8	$7,405
Covidien LP	7	$6,090
Grifols Shared Services North America, Inc.	6	$5,111
Xvivo Perfusion Inc.	2	$1,174
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	5	$318
Atricure, Inc.	3	$262
Davol Inc.	2	$196
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc	1	$186
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc	2	$104
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$85
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	1	$74
GSK	2	$44
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	2	$10

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$233,077
ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$67,956
LUNGguard$9,871
DAVINCI XI$8,000
Sherpacool$6,200
Shipper$6,200
Canister$6,200
superDimension$5,930
Prolastin-C Liquid$4,944
Berinert$3,435
ION$3,000
XVIVO Perfusion System (XPS)$1,174
BaroGuard$553
SherpaPak$394
LIVERguard$394
PancreasPak$394
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$226
ALIYA SYSTEM$186
ENDO GIA ULTRA$139
PHASIX$135

How this compares

$405,913 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$88,455

Medicare patients

Services billed

141

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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Durham

David HarpoleDurham$177K
Thomas D AmicoDurham$94K
Stafford BaldersonDurham$25K
Herbert LyerlyDurham$24K
Betty TongDurham$16K
Hai SalfityDurham$15K
Sara NajmehDurham$8K
Joseph RubelowskyRaleigh$2.2M
Gregory SmaroffNew Bern$205K
Carmelo MilanoLumberton$169K

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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