Samuel Ross
Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1225329816
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (49.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 55.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,937 and has fallen 90.1% since, to $390 in 2025.
Across 42 payments — averaging $192.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- CSL Behring$1K
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$722
- Atricure, Inc.$292
- Boston Scientific$165
- plus $176 from 4 others
Across 60 payments — averaging $42,679 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.
- CSL Behring$2.6M
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,00012%
- Travel & lodging$1,19815%
- Food & beverage$1,85623%
- Education$4,04450%
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 | 13 | $4,464 |
| CSL Behring | 6 | $1,278 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $1,000 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $722 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 9 | $292 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $165 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| CLR Medical, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $38 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
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
$8,097 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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.