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

Gener Dressler

Vascular Surgery Hickory, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1669815239 CMS profile 1393236

1771 Tate Blvd Se Ste 204, Hickory, NC 28602

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General payments

$3,779

117 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, Gener Dressler of Hickory, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,779 across 117 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 43rd percentile of Vascular Surgery 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 $698 21
2024 General $458 17
2023 General $1,190 35
2022 General $426 13
2021 General $148 3
2020 General $349 7
2019 General $508 21

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Gener Dressler
  • Vascular Surgery median
  • Middle half of Vascular Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Gener Dressler were reported at $698. Among 3,991 Vascular Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $924 and the middle half received between $273 and $2,636.

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Year Gener Dressler Vascular Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $508 $796 $226–$2,363 $163
2020 $349 $348 $118–$1,110 $114
2021 $148 $471 $158–$1,421 $132
2022 $426 $725 $222–$2,183 $149
2023 $1,190 $836 $257–$2,440 $160
2024 $458 $909 $252–$2,619 $164
2025 $698 $924 $273–$2,636 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Endologix, Inc. $767 7 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $611 17 payments
  3. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $249 5 payments
  4. Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. $237 6 payments
  5. Kerecis Limited $209 4 payments
  6. Stryker Corporation $201 4 payments
  7. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $201 11 payments
  8. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $151 10 payments
  9. Cook Medical LLC $133 7 payments
  10. Organogenesis Inc. $118 5 payments
  11. Other $902 41 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,519 110 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $182 2 payments
  3. Entertainment $67 4 payments
  4. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $10 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System $667 6 payments
  2. Ovation iX Iliac Stent Graft $667 6 payments
  3. Abre $370 6 payments
  4. Endurant $237 4 payments
  5. Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose Wound Care $195 3 payments
  6. Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide $175 2 payments
  7. Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose Wound Care $155 1 payment
  8. Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose Wound Care $155 1 payment
  9. Kerecis Omega3 Marigen $155 1 payment
  10. XARELTO $151 10 payments
  11. Other $2,745 116 payments

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

95

Median for Vascular Surgery: 122

Drug cost

$727

Median for Vascular Surgery: $14,135

Branded share of claims

29.5%

Median for Vascular Surgery: 71%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Cilostazol Generic 20 $268
Gabapentin Generic 11 $121
Atorvastatin Calcium Generic 13 $107
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 11 $103
Cephalexin Generic 12 $60
Clopidogrel Clopidogrel Bisulfate Brand 17 $47
Tramadol Hcl Generic 11 $20

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 · 79 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$85,839

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

348

Average age 76

Services billed

1,011

171 women, 177 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 75%
Arthritis 57%
Ischemic heart disease 43%
Diabetes 41%
Chronic kidney disease 36%
COPD 29%
Depression 26%
Atrial fibrillation 22%

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.

Payments and prescribing

1 product · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
REGRANEX
  • Smith+Nephew, Inc. $8
$8 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

117 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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