Anthony Kwon, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1194787176
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,320,784 of the $1,855,144 with a category attached, or 71.2%. Globus Medical accounts for 91.1% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 624 payments — averaging $2972.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$1.7M
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$160K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$3K
- Curiteva, Inc.$743
- MML US, Inc.$414
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$381
- plus $1K from 12 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $1694.96 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.
- Tyber Medical, LLC$20K
- Globus Medical$12K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,320,78471%
- Consulting fees$389,05921%
- Speaking & faculty fees$59,8753%
- Travel & lodging$67,4794%
- Food & beverage$17,9471%
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(2 entities) | 486 | $1,689,186 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 101 | $160,475 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 13 | $2,713 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 2 | $743 |
| MML US, Inc. | 3 | $414 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 3 | $381 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $238 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $199 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $196 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $154 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Trackx Technology, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $58 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Stryker | 1 | $17 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Modulus$1,099,385
- CoRoent$785,659
- ALIF$293,535
- XLIF$276,318
- Other - Miscellaneous$97,342
- LTP$38,500
- ELSA$27,963
- KODIAK$13,625
- FORTIFY$11,426
- ALTERA$10,175
- CORBEL$8,060
- Quartex$7,150
- Hedron$7,000
- Invictus MIS$6,500
- Solus ALIF$6,500
- LTX$6,500
- INDEPENDENCE MIS$6,300
- OsseoScrew$5,250
- INDEPENDENCE$4,000
- LIF$3,086
How this compares
$1,855,144 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 845 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 45 | $547 |
| Methylprednisolone | 63 | $404 |
| Celecoxib | 15 | $242 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 19 | $190 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 32 | $129 |
| Meloxicam | 26 | $82 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Charlotte
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- John MasonCharlotte$5.7M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
- John EllingtonCharlotte$4.9M
- Carroll JonesCharlotte$3.6M
- John MasonisCharlotte$3.4M
- Bruce CohenCharlotte$2.4M
- William GriffinCharlotte$1.8M
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.