Brian Waterman, MD
Sports Medicine · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1518158724
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 483 payments — averaging $964.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$210K
- Vericel Corporation$143K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$83K
- FH Orthopedics, Inc.$10K
- Piedmont Plus Innovation$4K
- Southtech Orthopedics$4K
- plus $12K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$66,96119%
- Speaking & faculty fees$239,62066%
- Travel & lodging$28,9378%
- Food & beverage$12,5333%
- Education$12,4353%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 240 | $210,279 |
| Vericel Corporation | 115 | $142,881 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 11 | $83,360 |
| FH Orthopedics, Inc. | 7 | $9,551 |
| Piedmont Plus Innovation | 36 | $3,865 |
| Southtech Orthopedics | 7 | $3,574 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 2 | $2,250 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $2,000 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 14 | $1,643 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 5 | $1,582 |
| Smith+Nephew | 15 | $1,485 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $1,270 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 4 | $430 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 4 | $404 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $287 |
| Ossio Inc | 2 | $249 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $180 |
| Team 1, LLC | 1 | $150 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $129 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 2 | $103 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Vertex | 1 | $54 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- MACI$121,797
- Arrow$6,629
- Bioknotless Ethibond$2,048
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$357
- EQUINOXE$355
- INSPACE$276
- ALLOGRAFT TISSUE$255
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$247
- EZOUT$170
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$159
- ICONIX$153
- LINVATEC HIP PRESERVATION SYSTEM$150
- LIVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$145
- MAKO$143
- Regeneten$131
- OSTEORAPTOR Hip$131
- Q-FIX Hip$131
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$131
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$128
- ARTHREX$126
How this compares
$465,916 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 158 sports medicine 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 sports medicine in Winston Salem
- Allston StubbsWinston Salem$184K
- Kevin CoatesWinston Salem$30K
- John HubbardWinston Salem$10K
- Yusik ChoWinston Salem$3K
- Robert BoykinAsheville$143K
- Tally EddingsAsheville$109K
- William SilverDurham$82K
- Rebecca BassettGreensboro$69K
- Wallace HarrisAsheville$58K
- Alan ReynoldsGreensboro$54K
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.