Michael Bates, MD
Surgery · Greenville, NCNPI 1932310604
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (40.4%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 47.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,382 and has fallen 76.1% since, to $1,287 in 2025.
Across 37 payments — averaging $301.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$167
- Philips North America LLC$137
- Boston Scientific$125
- plus $334 from 11 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $8180.00 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.
- Corcym Inc$16K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,12510%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,25029%
- Travel & lodging$1,23811%
- Food & beverage$1,0349%
- Education$4,50040%
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 | 9 | $5,300 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $3,300 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $1,786 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $167 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $137 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $125 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $97 |
| Abbott | 1 | $57 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $47 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 2 | $33 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $5 |
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
$11,148 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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.
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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.