Travis Hughes, MD
Vascular Surgery · Lexington, KYNPI 1801327184
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,117 of the $9,308 with a category attached, or 65.7%. Medtronic accounts for 60.1% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $9,151.
Across 111 payments — averaging $83.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$6K
- Endologix LLC$945
- Cook Medical LLC$867
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$664
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$399
- Boston Scientific$280
- plus $560 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$8679%
- Travel & lodging$2,32425%
- Food & beverage$6,11766%
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 | 69 | $5,592 |
| Endologix LLC | 11 | $945 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $867 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 7 | $664 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 4 | $399 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $280 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 7 | $237 |
| Stryker | 2 | $185 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 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.
- ENDURANT IIS$1,892
- Valiant Captivia$1,056
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$986
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$548
- ENDOCROSS Device$462
- Torus Stent Graft System$462
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$302
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$288
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$170
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$170
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$124
- Affinity$124
- Apligraf$124
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$107
How this compares
$9,308 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 72 vascular surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 | 34 | $117 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Lexington
- Igor VoskresenskyLexington$99K
- Nick AbediLexington$95K
- Samuel TyagiLexington$70K
- David MinionLexington$25K
- Mark IltisLexington$22K
- Keith MenesLexington$20K
- Dong Hee LeeLexington$17K
- Ryan KingLexington$12K
- Junior UniversLexington$10K
- Tana RepellaLexington$9K
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.