Nicole Keefe, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1326468893
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $56,100 of the $91,717 with a category attached, or 61.2%. Medtronic accounts for 97.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $41,804, more than ten times the $188 reported in 2019. Among vascular & interventional radiology 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.
Across 202 payments — averaging $454.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$89K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$700
- Boston Scientific$589
- Okami Medical, Inc.$310
- Penumbra, Inc.$229
- Cook Medical LLC$173
- plus $688 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,37512%
- Speaking & faculty fees$56,10061%
- Travel & lodging$17,24119%
- Food & beverage$6,9788%
- Education$230%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 180 | $89,028 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 2 | $700 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $589 |
| Okami Medical, Inc. | 3 | $310 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $229 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $173 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $160 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $154 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $132 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $88 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Instylla, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$56,390
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$9,641
- Abre$7,238
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM$3,528
- HawkOne$1,612
- CONCERTOTM$1,545
- Concerto Versa$963
- TurboHawk$293
- LOBO$274
- RUBY Coil$179
- LAVA LES (Liquid Embolic System)$154
- COVERA$147
- EKOSONIC$143
- EMBOLD Fibered$141
- Certus 140$132
- GENERAL THROMBECTOMY$120
How this compares
$91,717 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 106 vascular & interventional radiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 18 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in Chapel Hill
- Gloria SalazarChapel Hill$364K
- Ari IsaacsonChapel Hill$290K
- Maureen KohiChapel Hill$28K
- Johannes du PisanieChapel Hill$12K
- Meghan ClarkChapel Hill$3K
- Brian KouriWinston Salem$342K
- William PechterCary$73K
- Stephen LoehrCary$72K
- Jeremy KimCharlotte$60K
- Charles KimDurham$50K
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.