Robert Peyton
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Raleigh, NCNPI 1174531057
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $50,880 of the $83,802 with a category attached, or 60.7%. Cook Incorporated accounts for 78.6% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $45,203 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $241 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular 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 147 payments — averaging $570.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$66K
- Cook Medical LLC$18K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$241
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$85
- AstraZeneca$26
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$22
- plus $18 from 1 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $3875.02 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$45K
- AbbVie$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,72012%
- Speaking & faculty fees$50,88061%
- Travel & lodging$19,39423%
- Food & beverage$3,8085%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 30 | $65,902 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 101 | $17,508 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 3 | $241 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $85 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $26 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 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.
- Evolution$33,516
- Cook Medical Lead Management$14,288
- Cook Medical Lead Extraction$13,500
- Cook Medical AAA$9,006
- Cook Medical Evolution$5,400
- Cook Medical Lead Management - Lead Extraction$2,585
- Cook Medical Interventional Radiology$2,286
- PERFORMER$317
How this compares
$83,802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Carolina.
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Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Raleigh
- Joseph RubelowskyRaleigh$2.2M
- Charles HarrRaleigh$90K
- Judson WilliamsRaleigh$56K
- Bryon BoultonRaleigh$40K
- Alden MaierRaleigh$20K
- Clifton ReadeRaleigh$16K
- Curtis AndersonRaleigh$9K
- Matthew HartwigDurham$406K
- Gregory SmaroffNew Bern$205K
- David HarpoleDurham$177K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.