Patrick Dennis, MD
Surgery · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1245750231
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $18,750 of the $26,212 with a category attached, or 71.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 94.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $17,269, more than ten times the $222 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 74 payments — averaging $354.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$25K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$287
- Innovation Technologies Inc$215
- Davol Inc.$157
- Johnson & Johnson$155
- Teleflex LLC$131
- plus $601 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,21316%
- Food & beverage$3,24912%
- Education$18,75072%
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 | 53 | $24,666 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $287 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $215 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $155 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $131 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $119 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $107 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $87 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $86 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $23 |
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$20,744
- DAVINCI XI$2,750
- CYTAL$237
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$167
- Phasix Mesh$133
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$131
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$120
- Irrisept$115
- OviTex 2S$109
- SURGIMEND$107
How this compares
$26,212 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 18 | $195 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 47 | $149 |
| Methocarbamol | 16 | $92 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 37 | $67 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Winston Salem
- Nikhil TepparaWinston Salem$138K
- Andrew MonteleoneWinston Salem$104K
- Brant HenifordCharlotte$831K
- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- Dana PortenierDurham$702K
- Paul EnochsCary$595K
- David IannittiCharlotte$360K
- William HopeWilmington$350K
- Martyn KnowlesRaleigh$311K
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.