Has Charles Gordon, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $208,378 in general payments to Charles Gordon, MD across 507 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Charles Gordon, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Charles Gordon, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Charles Gordon, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Daphne, ALNPI 1275825135

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $148,500 of the $208,378 with a category attached, or 71.3%. 43 manufacturers reported payments, led by 4web, Inc. at 47.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $66,673 and has fallen 89.3% since, to $7,122 in 2025.

$208,378in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 507 payments — averaging $411.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

4web, Inc.$99K
Royal Biologics, Inc.$21K
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.$18K
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$11K
Stryker$11K
Integrity Implants Inc.$11K
plus $37K from 37 others

$20,120in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $6706.67 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.

Medtronic$20K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$6,1393%
Consulting fees$148,50071%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,2402%
Travel & lodging$27,96113%
Food & beverage$22,17411%
Education$3410%
Entertainment$220%

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
4web, Inc.	85	$99,413
Royal Biologics, Inc.	28	$20,754
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	4	$18,374
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	14	$11,049
Stryker	27	$10,968
Integrity Implants Inc.	34	$10,958
Medtronic(2 entities)	100	$10,068
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	17	$6,666
Alphatec Spine, Inc	9	$3,337
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	15	$3,202
Si-bone, Inc.	25	$2,616
Life Spine, Inc.	22	$2,459
Spinal Elements, Inc.	15	$1,512
DJO, LLC	29	$922
Cerapedics Inc.	4	$854
Mirus, LLC	4	$814
Zimmer Biomet	7	$742
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	12	$742
Biocomposites Inc	5	$322
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	5	$259
Globus Medical	2	$225
Precision Spine, Inc.	3	$205
Titan Spine, LLC	5	$195
Spineology Inc.	2	$193
Novapproach Spine, LLC	1	$185
Abbott	4	$179
Baxter Healthcare	4	$175
Bioventus LLC	1	$148
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$124
Boston Scientific	1	$120
Terumo BCT, Inc.	1	$108
Orthalign Inc	1	$75
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$73
Carlsmed, Inc.	3	$70
Corelink, LLC	1	$70
Davol Inc.	1	$53
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$48
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$32
Nevro Corp.	1	$23
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$15
Amgen	1	$14
Brainlab, Inc.	1	$9
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	1	$6

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.

SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$97,736
Fibrinet$20,366
Toro$10,152
CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$8,138
RAVINE LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$8,000
PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$3,347
Other - Miscellaneous$1,997
VIPER$1,895
CONCORDE$1,665
O-ARM-ST$1,628
Maxx Cell$1,500
WaveForm C$1,397
NAVIGATION$1,310
GRUVE ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE System$1,256
IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,248
EXPEDIUM$1,204
ProLink Barb$1,131
Solstice Occipito-Cervico-Thoracic System$1,131
Dyna-Link Ti$1,131
CD HORIZON$1,076

How this compares

$208,378 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 20 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$220,092

Medicare patients

168

Services billed

1,089

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
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate	21	$8,972
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	367	$8,609
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	412	$7,733
Pregabalin	496	$6,303
Gabapentin	381	$4,095
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate	11	$3,119
Tramadol Hcl	353	$2,997
Lidocaine	20	$1,846
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	209	$1,822
Diclofenac Sodium	78	$1,451
Tizanidine Hcl	156	$1,424
Celecoxib	97	$1,213
Naloxone Hcl	12	$827
Duloxetine Hcl	59	$728
Baclofen	52	$515

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Daphne

James HicksDaphne$6K
Javier RetoHuntsville$768K
Timothy HoltMontgomery$478K
Timothy BassettTuscaloosa$291K
Phillip KravetzCullman$224K
Larry ParkerHuntsville$136K
Todd VolkmanMobile$34K
Bendt PetersenMobile$30K
James WestMobile$25K
Asra ToobaieMobile$9K

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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.

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