Anthony Asher, MD
Neurological Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1003814914
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $60,643 of the $92,747 with a category attached, or 65.4%. Globus Medical accounts for 69.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 115 payments — averaging $806.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$65K
- Medtronic$17K
- Stryker$7K
- Brainlab, Inc.$4K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$373
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$154
- plus $189 from 3 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $32,400 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Stryker$194K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$60,64365%
- Consulting fees$9,20010%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,6008%
- Travel & lodging$6,6987%
- Food & beverage$8,4629%
- Education$1430%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 41 | $64,813 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 27 | $16,913 |
| Stryker | 20 | $6,663 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 7 | $3,641 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 4 | $373 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $154 |
| Abbott | 1 | $127 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
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.
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$24,622
- CRANIAL$16,373
- Excelsius - GPS$11,550
- VenaSeal$8,312
- ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY DURAL SEALANT$4,275
- Image Guided Surgical Device$3,474
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$986
- NEURO$675
- Excelsius Cranial 1.0$500
- Excelsius Robotics System$202
- TA$185
- Artis icono floor$137
- CD HORIZON$133
- STEALTH AUTOGUIDE SYSTEM$129
- PROCLAIM$127
- Gliadel$100
How this compares
$92,747 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 196 neurological 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.
Other neurological surgery in Charlotte
- Domagoj CoricCharlotte$2.3M
- Paul KimCharlotte$1.5M
- Matthew McGirtCharlotte$693K
- Tim AdamsonCharlotte$470K
- Michael BohlCharlotte$120K
- Vincent RossiCharlotte$104K
- Joe BernardCharlotte$101K
- Andrew HealyCharlotte$99K
- Frederick FingerCharlotte$73K
- Joseph CheatleCharlotte$44K
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.