Who Paid My Doc
Frank Arko
Vascular Surgery Charlotte, NC Medical Doctor
NPI 1134181191 CMS profile 50863
1237 Harding Pl, Ste 4400, Charlotte, NC 28204
General payments
$2,612,430
Research payments
$9,882
Ownership & investment interest
$4,084
Research they led as principal investigator
$409,419
Through program year 2025, Frank Arko of Charlotte, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,612,430 across 2,484 general payments and $9,882 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $409,419 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $4,084 across 2 holdings.
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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Vascular Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
11 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $223,939 | 258 | |
| 2024 | General | $312,271 | 359 | |
| 2023 | General | $414,829 | 513 | |
| 2022 | General | $306,913 | 405 | |
| 2021 | General | $831,910 | 294 | |
| 2020 | General | $282,067 | 263 | |
| 2020 | Research | $4,802 | 8 | |
| 2019 | General | $240,502 | 392 | |
| 2019 | Research | $5,079 | 5 | |
| 2020 | Ownership | $1 | 1 | |
| 2019 | Ownership | $4,083 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Frank Arko
- Vascular Surgery median
- Middle half of Vascular Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Frank Arko were reported at $223,939. Among 3,991 Vascular Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $924 and the middle half received between $273 and $2,636.
Show as a table
| Year | Frank Arko | Vascular Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $240,502 | $796 | $226–$2,363 | $163 |
| 2020 | $282,067 | $348 | $118–$1,110 | $114 |
| 2021 | $831,910 | $471 | $158–$1,421 | $132 |
| 2022 | $306,913 | $725 | $222–$2,183 | $149 |
| 2023 | $414,829 | $836 | $257–$2,440 | $160 |
| 2024 | $312,271 | $909 | $252–$2,619 | $164 |
| 2025 | $223,939 | $924 | $273–$2,636 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 5 drugsPart D claims
162
Drug cost
$60,011
Branded share of claims
82.1%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xarelto Rivaroxaban | Brand | 34 | $35,561 | |
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 24 | $23,266 | |
| Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate | Brand | 75 | $934 | |
| Cilostazol | Generic | 15 | $160 | |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | Generic | 14 | $88 |
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 3,087 Part D prescribers listed as Vascular Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 122 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$146,965
Medicare patients
313
Services billed
745
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 54% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 42% | |
| Arthritis | 42% | |
| Diabetes | 39% | |
| Heart failure | 33% | |
| COPD | 31% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 27% |
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
2,497 reportedEvery 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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.