Has Stephen Self, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,482 in general payments to Stephen Self, MD across 68 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Stephen Self, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Stephen Self, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Stephen Self, MD

Vascular Surgery · Louisville, KYNPI 1174557037

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.6% of the total across 68 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 43.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,318, 2.3 times the $584 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $9,151.

$4,482in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 68 payments — averaging $65.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$2K
Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$557
Penumbra, Inc.$280
Shockwave Medical, Inc$215
Abbott$183
plus $228 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$190%
Food & beverage$4,463100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Boston Scientific	40	$1,969
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	10	$1,050
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	8	$557
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$280
Shockwave Medical, Inc	2	$215
Abbott	1	$183
EKOS Corporation	2	$129
Cook Medical LLC	1	$70
Medtronic	1	$16
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$13

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

$4,482 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 72 vascular surgery providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$130,626

Medicare patients

397

Services billed

861

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
EliquisApixaban	15	$11,159
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	188	$1,117
Cilostazol	23	$270
Atorvastatin Calcium	31	$132
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	23	$88

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Gregory SchmiederLouisville$44K
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Matthew JungLouisville$24K
Nancy ClarkLouisville$19K
Ashlee VinyardLouisville$12K
Salem GeorgeLouisville$10K
Nathaniel LiuLouisville$10K

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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.

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