Christopher McDowell, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery · Greenville, NCNPI 1073994265
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 188 payments — averaging $139.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$9K
- Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC$7K
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- Kairos Surgical Inc$2K
- Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc.$1K
- Southtech Orthopedics$1K
- plus $3K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$14,90757%
- Food & beverage$7,40928%
- Education$3,88715%
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 | 76 | $8,793 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 32 | $6,778 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 28 | $2,948 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 9 | $2,188 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 4 | $1,448 |
| Southtech Orthopedics | 1 | $1,200 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 6 | $928 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $690 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 2 | $424 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $153 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $137 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $119 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $89 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $55 |
| Vertex | 2 | $44 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $17 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 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.
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$1,538
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$467
- VA-LCP$268
- COMPREHENSIVE$228
- BioBrace 23mm$153
- MINIBUNION$144
- MOTOBAND$144
- MOTOBAND CP$144
- Comprehensive Reverse$137
- TFN-Advance$125
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$125
- Persona$118
- INHANCE$114
- INCEPTIV$109
How this compares
$26,202 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium | 46 | $1,119 |
| Methylprednisolone | 105 | $641 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 67 | $351 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 51 | $344 |
| Meloxicam | 24 | $230 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 45 | $196 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $152 |
| Ibuprofen | 12 | $134 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 36 | $73 |
| Amoxicillin | 17 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Greenville
- Edwin BartlettGreenville$1.1M
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- John MasonCharlotte$6.2M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
- John EllingtonCharlotte$5.2M
- Mark EasleyDurham$4.2M
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.