Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Eric Kraus

Otology & Neurotology Winston Salem, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1073504221 CMS profile 229530

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Medical Center Blvd, Winston Salem, NC 27157

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General payments

$56,499

22 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Eric Kraus of Winston Salem, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $56,499 across 22 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 95th percentile of Otology & Neurotology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $10,179 4
2024 General $10,246 4
2023 General $9,431 3
2022 General $7,619 1
2021 General $7,764 2
2020 General $5,412 4
2019 General $5,848 4

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Eric Kraus
  • Otology & Neurotology median
  • Middle half of Otology & Neurotology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Eric Kraus were reported at $10,179. Among 280 Otology & Neurotology profiles paid that year, the median was $411 and the middle half received between $148 and $1,608.

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Year Eric Kraus Otology & Neurotology median Middle half National median
2019 $5,848 $349 $117–$1,358 $163
2020 $5,412 $118 $58–$325 $114
2021 $7,764 $186 $81–$600 $132
2022 $7,619 $290 $129–$938 $149
2023 $9,431 $335 $119–$978 $160
2024 $10,246 $399 $138–$1,384 $164
2025 $10,179 $411 $148–$1,608 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Grace Medical, Inc. $52,507 13 payments
  2. iotaMotion, Inc $3,626 5 payments
  3. Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. $263 2 payments
  4. Acera Surgical, Inc. $90 1 payment
  5. Acclarent, Inc $14 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $52,507 13 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $1,750 1 payment
  3. Travel and Lodging $1,201 1 payment
  4. Food and Beverage $1,042 7 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. KRAUS K-HELIX IMPLANTS $41,247 5 payments
  2. iotaSOFT $2,049 3 payments
  3. iotaSOFT Insertion System $1,577 2 payments
  4. INSPIRE $263 2 payments
  5. Restrata Wound Matrix $90 1 payment
  6. Acclarent Aera $14 1 payment

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 7 drugs

Part D claims

164

Median for Otolaryngology: 297

Drug cost

$3,018

Median for Otolaryngology: $6,314

Branded share of claims

42.7%

Median for Otolaryngology: 10.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Tobramycin-Dexamethasone Tobramycin/Dexamethasone Brand 22 $1,471
Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate Generic 14 $605
Triamterene-Hydrochlorothiazid Triamterene/Hydrochlorothiazid Brand 48 $304
Ciprofloxacin Hcl Generic 21 $224
Montelukast Sodium Generic 23 $209
Prednisone Generic 22 $104
Spironolactone Generic 14 $101

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 9,296 Part D prescribers listed as Otolaryngology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 18 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$16,903

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

144

Average age 73

Services billed

260

79 women, 65 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 67%
Arthritis 43%
Ischemic heart disease 24%
Chronic kidney disease 21%
Diabetes 20%
Depression 19%
Cancer 17%
Osteoporosis 15%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

22 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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