Thomas Kelly
Cardiovascular Disease · Greensboro, NCNPI 1902902182
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 251 payments — averaging $44.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$7K
- Johnson & Johnson$391
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$382
- Abbott$371
- Novartis$348
- Abiomed$310
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,73452%
- Travel & lodging$370%
- Food & beverage$5,31748%
- Education$230%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 72 | $6,979 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 29 | $391 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $382 |
| Abbott | 9 | $371 |
| Novartis | 24 | $348 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $310 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $300 |
| AstraZeneca | 20 | $270 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 13 | $238 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $206 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $199 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $147 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $119 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $111 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 3 | $107 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 7 | $94 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 6 | $74 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| Bayer | 4 | $61 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $39 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $34 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Resmed Corp | 1 | $23 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $17 |
| Gilead | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Boston Scientific | 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.
- Repatha$5,856
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$278
- Indigo System$160
- TherOx DS2 Console$147
- Catheter$147
- Downstream Cartridge$147
- OPTIS$140
- Indigo$140
- Impella$138
- GlideWire$111
- Heartrail$111
- METACROSS OTW$111
- Vascular Lithotripsy$104
How this compares
$11,112 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 448 | $391,397 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 222 | $177,909 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 159 | $170,656 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 121 | $116,242 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 90 | $68,535 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 59 | $52,505 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 48 | $45,014 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 40 | $28,257 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 15 | $11,807 |
| Repatha PushtronexEvolocumab | 15 | $10,047 |
| NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe | 19 | $9,722 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 740 | $9,355 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 563 | $8,668 |
| Ezetimibe | 469 | $7,873 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 588 | $6,252 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $206 | $391,397448 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $348 | $170,656159 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $391 | $116,242121 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga | $270 | $113,549138 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $199 | $52,50559 claims |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet | $64 | $9,72219 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.
Other cardiovascular disease in Greensboro
- Jagadeesh GanjiGreensboro$1.7M
- Kenneth HiltyGreensboro$1.6M
- Michael CooperGreensboro$613K
- Cameron LambertGreensboro$609K
- Bridgette ChristopherGreensboro$261K
- John AlexanderDurham$76.8M
- Christopher GrangerDurham$24.7M
- Jonathan PicciniDurham$14.3M
- Adrian HernandezDurham$13.2M
- Gary FelkerDurham$12.7M
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.