Thomas Stuckey
Interventional Cardiology · Greensboro, NCNPI 1376593731
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $26,250 of the $36,489 with a category attached, or 71.9%. Chiesi USA, Inc. accounts for 83.0% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $14,636 and has fallen 86.5% since, to $1,975 in 2025.
Across 117 payments — averaging $311.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$30K
- Medtronic$2K
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Ltd$1K
- Abiomed$880
- Cvrx, Inc.$786
- Abbott$551
- plus $1K from 9 others
Across 47 payments — averaging $19,008 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Novartis$723K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$96K
- Amgen$40K
- Merck$20K
- Regeneron$14K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$26,25072%
- Travel & lodging$6,34717%
- Food & beverage$3,86211%
- Education$300%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 47 | $30,281 |
| Medtronic | 13 | $1,850 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Ltd | 4 | $1,022 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $880 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 20 | $786 |
| Abbott | 7 | $551 |
| Amgen | 7 | $251 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $171 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 5 | $125 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 6 | $112 |
| Novartis | 1 | $97 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $96 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $29 |
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.
- KENGREAL$29,492
- Impella$880
- Barostim Neo System$469
- KENGREAL 50MG/10ML L$327
- OPTIMIZER$229
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$171
- Xience Sierra Coronary Stent System$132
- MANTA$124
- DRAGONFLY OPSTAR$109
How this compares
$36,489 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 180 interventional cardiology providers in North Carolina.
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- Ravish SacharRaleigh$1.6M
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- Ronald UszenskiMooresville$495K
- Oluseun AlliCharlotte$485K
- Matthew CavenderChapel Hill$453K
- Steven FilbyPinehurst$442K
- Naveed RajperStatesville$223K
- Siddhartha RaoCary$223K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.