Alexander Lemons, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Pinehurst, NCNPI 1699069211
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 526 payments — averaging $899.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$196K
- Spineart USA Inc$88K
- Nexxt Spine LLC$66K
- Life Spine, Inc.$38K
- Arthrex$34K
- Medtronic$24K
- plus $28K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$42,63611%
- Consulting fees$251,98065%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,5953%
- Travel & lodging$58,77515%
- Food & beverage$22,1506%
- Entertainment$2790%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 65 | $196,001 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 101 | $87,628 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 31 | $66,174 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 74 | $38,140 |
| Arthrex | 41 | $33,790 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 52 | $23,616 |
| Royal Biologics, Inc. | 8 | $9,600 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 3 | $4,991 |
| Degen Medical, Inc. | 4 | $2,225 |
| Abbott | 51 | $1,870 |
| Spineart SA | 6 | $1,706 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 12 | $1,668 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 13 | $1,211 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 18 | $987 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 4 | $749 |
| Nevro Corp. | 8 | $616 |
| Southtech Orthopedics | 2 | $594 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $520 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 6 | $229 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $184 |
| Stryker | 3 | $164 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $145 |
| Zsfab, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $96 |
| Innovasis Inc | 2 | $60 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $51 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $36 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, 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.
- Struxxure L System$42,801
- Struxxure MCS System$42,636
- Convexx Cervical$42,636
- ARx$28,879
- Juliet LL$20,410
- Perla TL$19,717
- Modular Fixation System$19,118
- Convexx and Lateral Plate$15,375
- Connexx System$15,000
- Struxxure C$15,000
- TruLift Lateral$12,152
- MIDAS REX$9,675
- Tiger Shark$4,961
- Arx SAI$3,955
- JULIET TL Ti$2,756
- CERVICAL AM$2,225
- Struxxure MCS$2,000
- PERLA C$1,764
- Connexx Open System$1,375
- Connexx MIS & Open Systems$1,180
How this compares
$473,250 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 32 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 46 | $984 |
| Gabapentin | 63 | $433 |
| Pregabalin | 23 | $277 |
| Methylprednisolone | 37 | $192 |
| Mupirocin | 22 | $191 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $99 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Pinehurst
- Daniel WilliamsPinehurst$1.1M
- James RicePinehurst$718
- Peter PassiasDurham$691K
- Phillip HorneCary$385K
- Daniel CavanaughChapel Hill$246K
- Olumide DanisaDurham$227K
- Conor ReganRaleigh$149K
- Michael MooreGreensboro$83K
- Daniel LeasConcord$42K
- Brett RocosDurham$40K
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.