Natalie Nowak, DO
Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1275893927
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $8,000 of the $13,204 with a category attached, or 60.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 80.7% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $9,273 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $125 in 2025.
Across 63 payments — averaging $209.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Davol Inc.$721
- Medline Industries LP$600
- Asensus Surgical, Inc.$580
- Johnson & Johnson$152
- Boston Scientific$148
- plus $352 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6005%
- Travel & lodging$2,66520%
- Food & beverage$1,93915%
- Education$8,00061%
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 | 25 | $10,651 |
| Davol Inc. | 13 | $721 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $600 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 5 | $580 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $152 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $148 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $38 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $29 |
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $25 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AbbVie | 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.
How this compares
$13,204 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Other surgery in Charlotte
- Brant HenifordCharlotte$831K
- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- David IannittiCharlotte$360K
- Gregory StanleyCharlotte$304K
- Erin BakerCharlotte$221K
- John GreenCharlotte$202K
- Bradley ThomasCharlotte$162K
- Keith GersinCharlotte$80K
- Timothy KuwadaCharlotte$69K
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.