Has Travis Palmer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,931 in general payments to Travis Palmer, MD across 34 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Travis Palmer, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Travis Palmer, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Travis Palmer, MD

Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Hickory, NCNPI 1780003152

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,707 of the $1,931 with a category attached, or 88.4%. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Inari Medical, Inc. at 48.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $650 and has fallen 86.6% since, to $87 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular & interventional radiology clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $1,730.

$1,931in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $56.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inari Medical, Inc.$944
Boston Scientific$426
Medtronic$338
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$136
Stryker$87

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,70788%
Education$22412%

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
Inari Medical, Inc.	17	$944
Boston Scientific	10	$426
Medtronic(2 entities)	4	$338
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	1	$136
Stryker	2	$87

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.

How this compares

$1,931 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 106 vascular & interventional radiology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$173,435

Medicare patients

2,779

Services billed

4,352

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
Prednisone	13	$16

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Stephen LoehrCary$72K
Jeremy KimCharlotte$60K
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Maureen KohiChapel Hill$28K

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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.

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