Aaron Carter, MD
Pain Medicine · Greenville, NCNPI 1528247806
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,974 of the $7,717 with a category attached, or 77.4%. 32 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 32.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,302 and has fallen 64.5% since, to $817 in 2025.
Across 249 payments — averaging $30.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Curonix LLC$1K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$754
- Boston Scientific$589
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$417
- Si-bone, Inc.$412
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,74323%
- Food & beverage$5,97477%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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(2 entities) | 129 | $2,481 |
| Curonix LLC | 11 | $1,320 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 4 | $754 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $589 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 5 | $417 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 8 | $412 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 19 | $382 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 5 | $165 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $162 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $111 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $108 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $91 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $72 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| Abbott | 3 | $60 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $52 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Stryker | 1 | $35 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $27 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 1 | $16 |
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.
How this compares
$7,717 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 182 pain medicine providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 68 | $2,674 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $704 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 15 | $343 |
| Pregabalin | 17 | $338 |
| Gabapentin | 22 | $236 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $164 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 17 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Greenville
- Scott FriearyGreenville$24K
- Brian KeoghGreenville$24K
- Juan Firnhaber-BurgosGreenville$11K
- Patricia DoerrGreenville$9K
- James NorthWinston Salem$721K
- Leonardo KapuralWinston Salem$523K
- Christopher GilmoreWinston Salem$457K
- Richard RauckWinston Salem$431K
- Courtney AumanJacksonville$186K
- Jacob WangCharlotte$162K
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.