Vedra Augenstein, MD
Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1962549527
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 788 payments — averaging $1001.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$521K
- Intuitive Surgical$95K
- Medtronic$78K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$31K
- KCI USA, Inc.$23K
- Covidien LP$12K
- plus $29K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$146,29119%
- Speaking & faculty fees$516,93465%
- Travel & lodging$59,2538%
- Food & beverage$19,2322%
- Education$47,6006%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 522 | $520,748 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 126 | $95,209 |
| Medtronic | 62 | $78,117 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 13 | $31,013 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 16 | $23,047 |
| Covidien LP | 8 | $12,286 |
| Davol Inc. | 13 | $11,308 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 13 | $10,525 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $3,250 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $3,000 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $363 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $180 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $124 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $109 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
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.
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$309,248
- STRATTICE$168,186
- Da Vinci Surgical System$93,526
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$55,716
- ALLODERM$50,845
- ProGrip$30,963
- EXPAREL$30,849
- REVOLVE$30,461
- NATRELLE$24,587
- PREVENA$18,988
- AbsorbaTack$15,600
- TRANSORB$14,950
- Dextile$9,350
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$8,850
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$8,850
- Iovera$5,375
- Zilretta$5,375
- Bair Hugger$5,175
- 3M Skin and Nasal Antiseptic$5,175
- VAC VERAFLO$4,029
How this compares
$789,310 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 970 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.
Other surgery in Charlotte
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- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- Dimitrios StefanidisCharlotte$697K
- David IannittiCharlotte$652K
- Jason BurgessCharlotte$386K
- Gregory StanleyCharlotte$314K
- Keith GersinCharlotte$283K
- Erin BakerCharlotte$221K
- John GreenCharlotte$202K
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.