Aimee Riley, DO
Hand Surgery · Asheville, NCNPI 1932492584
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.2%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Trimed, Inc. accounts for 84.0% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,838 and has fallen 76.1% since, to $678 in 2025.
Across 50 payments — averaging $122.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Trimed, Inc.$5K
- Axogen$224
- Stryker$154
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$136
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$96
- Abbott$93
- plus $275 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5008%
- Travel & lodging$2,14635%
- Food & beverage$3,37255%
- Entertainment$911%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trimed, Inc. | 13 | $5,131 |
| Axogen | 2 | $224 |
| Stryker | 6 | $154 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $136 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Abbott | 4 | $93 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $31 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Tools - WFS$483
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$163
- Tools - AFS$109
How this compares
$6,110 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 79 hand surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 88 | $318 |
| Meloxicam | 71 | $269 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 16 | $206 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 39 | $139 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Asheville
- John YanikAsheville$32K
- Adam StarrAsheville$2K
- Angelo CammarataAsheville$1K
- James PhelpsAsheville$653
- Christpher KliftoDurham$575K
- Raymond GastonCharlotte$505K
- Ryan GarciaCharlotte$381K
- Richard MooreWilmington$177K
- Erica TaylorRaleigh$97K
- Tyler PidgeonMorrisville$50K
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.