Alexander Collins, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Aiken, SCNPI 1871545475
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 20 payments — averaging $40.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- United Orthopedics LLC$460
- Amgen$82
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$43
- Bioventus LLC$38
- Abbott$34
- Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$24
- plus $120 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$34143%
- Education$46057%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| United Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $460 |
| Amgen | 6 | $82 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Abbott | 2 | $34 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $22 |
| Moximed, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$801 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 190 | $3,476 |
| Celecoxib | 148 | $2,258 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 82 | $935 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 96 | $918 |
| Methylprednisolone | 150 | $733 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 76 | $704 |
| Cephalexin | 73 | $658 |
| Meloxicam | 186 | $436 |
| Ibuprofen | 22 | $217 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $148 |
| Mupirocin | 21 | $122 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 28 | $108 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 42 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Aiken
- Jacob GoodrichAiken$43K
- Evan EkmanAiken$42K
- William SmithColumbia$7.7M
- Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
- Brent PonceCharleston$892K
- Chi LimSpartanburg$512K
- Todd LansfordNorth Charleston$288K
- Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
- Richard MarksWest Columbia$176K
- Brayton ShirleyGreer$134K
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.