Tara Balint, MD
Vascular Surgery · Harrisonburg, VANPI 1932156304
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $9,180 of the $15,280 with a category attached, or 60.1%. Medtronic accounts for 63.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,631 and has fallen 57.7% since, to $3,226 in 2025.
Across 127 payments — averaging $120.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$10K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$2K
- Smith+Nephew$273
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$202
- Bolton Medical Inc$138
- plus $287 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$9,18060%
- Food & beverage$6,10040%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 61 | $9,690 |
| Boston Scientific | 26 | $2,719 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 29 | $1,972 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $273 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $202 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $138 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $104 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $55 |
| Shape Memory Medical Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 1 | $4 |
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.
- IN.PACT Admiral$7,243
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,232
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,194
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$568
- Valiant Captivia$368
- ENDURANT IIS$366
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$323
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$312
- Endurant$247
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$218
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$218
- GENERAL METALLIC STENTS$147
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$138
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$123
- Stravix$119
- ELUVIA$113
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$112
- COLLAGENASE SANTYL$106
- Versajet$106
- HawkOne$105
How this compares
$15,280 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 143 vascular surgery providers in Virginia.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 14 | $12,788 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 123 | $1,221 |
| Varenicline Tartrate | 11 | $744 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $98 |
| Cilostazol | 11 | $97 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 29 | $59 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Harrisonburg
- Jean PannetonVirginia Beach$1.3M
- John DeitrickRichmond$684K
- Rasesh ShahChesapeake$465K
- David DexterNorfolk$404K
- Samuel SteermanVirginia Beach$252K
- Joseph BabrowiczFairfax$202K
- Joshua AdamsRoanoke$138K
- Richard NevilleFalls Church$114K
- Anthony ComerotaFalls Church$107K
- Animesh RathoreNorfolk$83K
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.