Victor Kim, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · New Bern, NCNPI 1356305833
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 100 payments — averaging $92.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC$1K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$527
- Arthrex$482
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,83463%
- Food & beverage$3,34736%
- Education$460%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 15 | $2,629 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 11 | $2,035 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 11 | $1,269 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 13 | $1,256 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 18 | $527 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $482 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $202 |
| Abbott | 3 | $173 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $124 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $84 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $44 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $32 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $29 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $18 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $4 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,363
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$1,692
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,077
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$976
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$976
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$976
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$246
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$194
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$194
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$103
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$101
How this compares
$9,227 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 132 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in North Carolina.
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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 | 72 | $752 |
| Cilostazol | 18 | $323 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 37 | $89 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in New Bern
- Gregory SmaroffNew Bern$206K
- Matthew HartwigDurham$4.2M
- Joseph RubelowskyRaleigh$2.2M
- Mark GrohAsheville$1.7M
- Carmelo MilanoLumberton$884K
- George HughesLumberton$776K
- Thomas EganChapel Hill$600K
- Thomas GleasonAsheville$468K
- Judson WilliamsRaleigh$416K
- Carlos Anciano GranadilloGreenville$402K
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.