Zachary Wegermann, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Durham, NCNPI 1295153435
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (56.7%), food and beverage and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 25.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,851 and has fallen 60.9% since, to $1,507 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $5,390.
Across 52 payments — averaging $114.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$913
- Boston Scientific$388
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$168
- plus $256 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2023%
- Travel & lodging$3,37157%
- Food & beverage$2,17537%
- Education$1923%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 12 | $1,534 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $1,427 |
| Abbott | 11 | $1,255 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $913 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $388 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $168 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $142 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $100 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,146
- TRICLIP$998
- GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder$991
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$426
- GENERAL CATHETER$202
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$186
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$145
- TherOx DS2 Console$142
- Catheter$142
- Downstream Cartridge$142
- EVOQUE$107
- LifeVest$100
How this compares
$5,940 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 180 interventional cardiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 12 | $86 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 11 | $13 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Durham
- Dennis NarcisseDurham$100K
- Rajesh SwaminathanDurham$82K
- William JonesDurham$36K
- Jorge GutierrezDurham$32K
- Andres Pineda MaldonadoDurham$17K
- George AdamsGarner$4.1M
- Paul MahoneyGreenville$1.7M
- Ravish SacharRaleigh$1.6M
- Patrick SimpsonPinehurst$579K
- Ronald UszenskiMooresville$495K
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.