Tarkten Pharr, MD
Vascular Surgery · Elizabeth City, NCNPI 1629037445
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,564 of the $8,034 with a category attached, or 69.3%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 27.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,065, 3.4 times the $892 reported in 2019.
Across 84 payments — averaging $95.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$2K
- Endologix LLC$839
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$279
- Boston Scientific$270
- plus $898 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,47031%
- Food & beverage$5,56469%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 39 | $2,176 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 9 | $2,025 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 7 | $1,548 |
| Endologix LLC | 15 | $839 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $279 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $270 |
| Abbott | 2 | $268 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $250 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $185 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $178 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$3,000
- Indigo System$1,899
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$1,500
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$1,500
- ENDURANT IIS$586
- Endurant$301
- VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$192
- VIVA XT CRT-D$188
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$167
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$150
- PERCLOSE PROGLIDE$149
- Torus Stent Graft System$143
- ENDOCROSS Device$143
- Abre$128
- JETi Peripheral Catheter$119
How this compares
$8,034 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 119 vascular 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 37 | $285 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 52 | $191 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Elizabeth City
- Frank ArkoCharlotte$2.6M
- Erin MurphyCharlotte$598K
- Robert MendesRaleigh$408K
- Ellen DillavouRaleigh$284K
- Mark FarberChapel Hill$245K
- Hector Crespo SotoCharlotte$178K
- Rebecca KelsoCharlotte$148K
- William MarstonChapel Hill$83K
- Bryan EhlertGoldsboro$83K
- Christopher McQuinnRaleigh$77K
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.