Bradley Ellison, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Concord, NCNPI 1205037116
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $380,939 of the $590,961 with a category attached, or 64.5%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 91.5% of it on its own, with 15 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 307 payments — averaging $1924.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$541K
- Globus Medical$22K
- Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.$11K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$8K
- Smith+Nephew$3K
- Innovation Technologies Inc$2K
- plus $4K from 10 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $1416.67 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.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$9K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$380,93964%
- Consulting fees$174,66330%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5000%
- Travel & lodging$25,2874%
- Food & beverage$7,3731%
- Education$1,2000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 203 | $540,765 |
| Globus Medical | 28 | $22,087 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 24 | $11,274 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 19 | $8,496 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $2,848 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $1,500 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 5 | $1,366 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 2 | $1,250 |
| Maxx Orthopedics, Inc. | 10 | $874 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $143 |
| Orthogrid Systems Inc | 1 | $94 |
| Ortho Development Corporation | 1 | $86 |
| Kinamed, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Stryker | 1 | $62 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
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.
- DJO SURGICAL$401,690
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$58,025
- DJO Surgical Empowr Acetabular System$52,970
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$31,431
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Knee$12,925
- DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$10,092
- DJO Surgical FMP Acetabular System$8,708
- ACTIFY 3D$7,377
- GMK SPHERE$7,243
- OsteoCentric 4.0 x 130mm LOCKING BONE SCREW FASTENER ST$6,481
- Genflex2 Total Knee System$6,050
- DJO Surgical Linear Hip System$4,125
- Unifi Technology$3,834
- Healicoil$2,550
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$2,107
- Q-FIX$1,992
- Irrisept$1,500
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$1,250
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$1,074
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$1,061
How this compares
$590,961 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 241 | $4,133 |
| Lidocaine | 30 | $2,140 |
| Mupirocin | 203 | $1,422 |
| Cephalexin | 224 | $913 |
| Meloxicam | 191 | $645 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 49 | $491 |
| Methylprednisolone | 57 | $312 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 41 | $267 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 58 | $231 |
| Prednisone | 35 | $115 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 28 | $109 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 15 | $107 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $93 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 29 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Concord
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- John MasonCharlotte$5.7M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
- John EllingtonCharlotte$4.9M
- Mark EasleyDurham$4M
- Carroll JonesCharlotte$3.6M
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.