Charles Nelson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Philadelphia, PANPI 1841228343
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 473 payments — averaging $757.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$190K
- Stryker$129K
- Exactech, Inc.$22K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$6K
- Synthes GmbH$5K
- Smith+Nephew$3K
- plus $3K from 18 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 244 | $189,914 |
| Stryker | 124 | $129,275 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 18 | $21,568 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 8 | $6,325 |
| Synthes GmbH | 8 | $5,217 |
| Smith+Nephew | 27 | $2,995 |
| Paladin Technology Solutions | 4 | $706 |
| Orthalign Inc | 5 | $669 |
| Arthrex | 4 | $634 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 13 | $223 |
| Acuitive Technologies, Inc | 1 | $178 |
| Intellijoint Surgical Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| BD | 3 | $129 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $122 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $119 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $38 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $25 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $19 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$358,419 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,048 orthopaedic surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
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 orthopaedic surgery in Philadelphia
- John FenlinPhiladelphia$5.9M
- Alexander VaccaroPhiladelphia$4.5M
- Joseph AbboudPhiladelphia$4.1M
- Samir MehtaPhiladelphia$3.7M
- Surena NamdariPhiladelphia$1.8M
- Craig IsraelitePhiladelphia$938K
- Andrew KuntzPhiladelphia$732K
- Neil ShethPhiladelphia$633K
- Vahid EntezariPhiladelphia$487K
- Amrit KhalsaPhiladelphia$475K
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.