Varun Kesar, MD
Gastroenterology · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1922493857
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $116.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$3K
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$763
- Olympus America Inc.$636
- AbbVie$622
- Conmed Corporation$408
- plus $673 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,81559%
- Food & beverage$3,86339%
- Education$1652%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 29 | $3,707 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 20 | $3,311 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 5 | $763 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 12 | $636 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $622 |
| Conmed Corporation | 5 | $408 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $207 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $158 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $158 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $125 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $24 |
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.
- ORISE$2,388
- Single Use Electrosurgical Knife KD-655$2,247
- Single Use Electrosurgical Hemostatic Forceps$2,037
- DISPOSABLE DISTAL ATTACHMENT$772
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$652
- Olympus$562
- AXIOS$251
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$250
- Rinvoq$235
- ACQUIRE$144
- CONMED BILIARY$139
- CONMED GENERATORS$139
- CONMED HEMOSTASIS$139
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$135
- Hemospray$127
- XELJANZ$125
- Creon$119
- EXALT Model D$111
- Skyrizi$103
- Single Use Aspiration Needle NA-U200H$101
How this compares
$10,120 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 610 gastroenterology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ursodiol | 16 | $8,308 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 37 | $385 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Winston Salem
- Herbert BonkovskyWinston Salem$1.7M
- Brian SmithWinston Salem$667K
- Richard BloomfeldWinston Salem$580K
- Andrew StormWinston Salem$456K
- Evan DellonChapel Hill$11.2M
- Andrew MuirDurham$6.6M
- Manal AbdelmalekDurham$5.6M
- Robert ReindollarSalisbury$2.5M
- John PoulosFayetteville$2.1M
- Hans HerfarthChapel Hill$2M
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.