Robert Mendes, MD
Vascular Surgery · Raleigh, NCNPI 1407941784
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 750 payments — averaging $899.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Philips North America LLC$143K
- Boston Scientific$125K
- Penumbra, Inc.$116K
- Medtronic$77K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$52K
- Cook Research Incorporated$37K
- plus $124K from 28 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $46,476 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.
- Cook Research Incorporated$600K
- Contego Medical, Inc$4K
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Philips North America LLC | 135 | $143,354 |
| Boston Scientific | 181 | $125,073 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 93 | $116,245 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 201 | $76,602 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 29 | $52,257 |
| Cook Research Incorporated | 8 | $37,119 |
| Contego Medical, Inc | 17 | $34,026 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 14 | $18,196 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $18,061 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 6 | $15,118 |
| Cook Incorporated | 8 | $14,886 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $11,018 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $5,981 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $1,667 |
| Endologix LLC | 6 | $975 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $850 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $825 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $576 |
| Abbott | 12 | $276 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $240 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $191 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $163 |
| Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc. | 4 | $139 |
| Rapid Medical Ltd | 1 | $124 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $84 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $59 |
| Walk Vascular, LLC | 1 | $44 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Amgen | 2 | $35 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $27 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $27 |
| Flowphysix Inc | 1 | $16 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $6 |
How this compares
$674,326 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 119 vascular 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 vascular surgery in Raleigh
- Ellen DillavouRaleigh$599K
- Dorian DefreitasRaleigh$137K
- Christopher McQuinnRaleigh$84K
- Joseph SalfityRaleigh$13K
- Jason KimRaleigh$8K
- Kirk CharlesRaleigh$8K
- Liliana NanezRaleigh$7K
- Heather WaldropRaleigh$5K
- Jacek PaszkowiakRaleigh$4K
- Frank ArkoCharlotte$3M
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.