Bruce Cox, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Shelby, NCNPI 1376545871
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 36.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,360, 3.0 times the $776 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $4,547.
Across 51 payments — averaging $75.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$431
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$295
- Bioventus LLC$150
- Arthrex$84
- plus $203 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,05054%
- Food & beverage$1,78046%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $1,403 |
| Stryker | 14 | $1,265 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $431 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 9 | $295 |
| Bioventus LLC | 8 | $150 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $84 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $52 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $49 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $39 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $17 |
| Abbott | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$3,830 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisone | 204 | $701 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 43 | $271 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 41 | $128 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $78 |
| Amoxicillin | 15 | $11 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Shelby
- 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.