Tyler Buckley, MD
Vascular Surgery · Greensboro, NCNPI 1740840024
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.0%), grants and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cook Medical LLC at 30.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,640 and has fallen 53.7% since, to $1,685 in 2025.
Across 159 payments — averaging $85.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Medical LLC$4K
- Penumbra, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- plus $822 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$3,18323%
- Travel & lodging$2,72020%
- Food & beverage$6,68349%
- Education$1,0608%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Medical LLC | 96 | $4,088 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 15 | $2,494 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $2,279 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $1,742 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 11 | $1,187 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $1,033 |
| Stryker | 4 | $230 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $190 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $134 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Indigo System$2,228
- ENDURANT IIS$1,838
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$935
- Zenith Spiral-Z$557
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$511
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$260
- FLOSEAL$190
- CLOTTRIEVER BOLD CATHETER$164
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$148
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$148
- ELUVIA$138
- Zenith$125
- Zilver PTX$124
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$120
- VenaCure 1470 Pro$116
- Cook$115
- POD$106
How this compares
$13,646 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 | 40 | $245 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Greensboro
- Brian ChenGreensboro$22K
- Vance BrabhamGreensboro$16K
- Brandon CainGreensboro$7K
- Thomas HawkenGreensboro$5K
- Christopher ClarkGreensboro$3K
- Frank ArkoCharlotte$2.6M
- Erin MurphyCharlotte$598K
- Robert MendesRaleigh$408K
- Ellen DillavouRaleigh$284K
- Mark FarberChapel Hill$245K
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.