Michael Sternberg, DO
Cardiovascular Disease · Gastonia, NCNPI 1043746928
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 71 payments — averaging $74.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$1K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- Medtronic$505
- Abbott$382
- Boston Scientific$312
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$305
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$68913%
- Food & beverage$4,42084%
- Education$1613%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 20 | $1,252 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $1,007 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $505 |
| Abbott | 5 | $382 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $312 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 8 | $305 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $284 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $240 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $164 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $152 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $93 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $91 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $91 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $25 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Zilver PTX$854
- Impella$454
- ONYX FRONTIER$383
- JARDIANCE$226
- Indigo System$141
- MANTA$134
- Diamondback Coronary$126
- AVVIGO Guidance System$122
- XIENCE SKYPOINT$116
- ASAHI PTCA Guide Wire$102
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$101
How this compares
$5,270 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease 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 | 52 | $45,352 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 53 | $41,450 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 14 | $9,156 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 66 | $877 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 86 | $782 |
| Ezetimibe | 34 | $669 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 63 | $565 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 54 | $485 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 34 | $314 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 16 | $276 |
| Valsartan | 13 | $169 |
| Spironolactone | 30 | $168 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 14 | $117 |
| Potassium Chloride | 13 | $100 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 18 | $92 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $25 | $45,35252 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $240 | $41,45053 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $18 | $9,15614 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.
Other cardiovascular disease in Gastonia
- John AlexanderDurham$76.8M
- Christopher GrangerDurham$24.7M
- Jonathan PicciniDurham$14.3M
- Adrian HernandezDurham$13.2M
- Gary FelkerDurham$12.7M
- Robert MentzDurham$6M
- Michael ShapiroWinston-Salem$5.4M
- Kirkwood AdamsChapel Hill$4.9M
- Matthew JanikWilmington$4M
- Nishant ShahDurham$3.5M
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.