Stephen Sides, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · New Bern, NCNPI 1841272465
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,147 of the $1,907 with a category attached, or 60.1%. GE HealthCare accounts for 60.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,213 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $33 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular & interventional radiology clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $1,730.
Across 25 payments — averaging $76.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GE HealthCare$1K
- Medtronic$193
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$139
- Sirtex Medical Inc$111
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$100
- Inari Medical, Inc.$69
- plus $148 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,14760%
- Food & beverage$76040%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $1,147 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 10 | $193 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $139 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 2 | $111 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $32 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,907 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 106 vascular & interventional radiology providers in North Carolina.
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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 & interventional radiology in New Bern
- Marlee CroissyNew Bern$15K
- Enrique RodriguezNew Bern$3K
- Gloria SalazarChapel Hill$364K
- Brian KouriWinston Salem$342K
- Ari IsaacsonChapel Hill$290K
- Nicole KeefeChapel Hill$92K
- William PechterCary$73K
- Stephen LoehrCary$72K
- Jeremy KimCharlotte$60K
- Charles KimDurham$50K
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.