Christopher Shaffrey, MD
Neurological Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1235208877
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $3,894,786 of the $4,535,573 with a category attached, or 85.9%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 42.5% of the total. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 925 payments — averaging $4903.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$1.9M
- Medtronic$1.1M
- Si-bone, Inc.$900K
- Zimmer Biomet$381K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$93K
- Zimvie Inc.$39K
- plus $52K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$3,894,78686%
- Consulting fees$410,3209%
- Speaking & faculty fees$62,7861%
- Travel & lodging$132,8523%
- Food & beverage$34,7751%
- Entertainment$550%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 346 | $1,929,218 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 359 | $1,142,369 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 104 | $899,656 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $381,215 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 17 | $92,586 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 11 | $38,951 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 18 | $19,230 |
| MML US, Inc. | 23 | $17,886 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 10 | $10,262 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $2,308 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 3 | $418 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 3 | $309 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $260 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $241 |
| Stryker | 3 | $240 |
| Curiteva, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| EBI, LLC | 1 | $56 |
| Highridge Medical LLC | 1 | $56 |
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.
- TLX$1,758,345
- Archon$1,528,067
- Brigade$1,468,361
- BASE$1,384,060
- CoRoent$1,054,665
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$818,101
- VersaTie$655,692
- Cypher Mis Screw System$366,568
- Polaris Posterior Spinal System$366,568
- Gallery Laminoplasty$366,568
- Lineum Posterior Cervical$366,568
- CD HORIZON$275,866
- ALIF$227,052
- TLIF$223,267
- Other - Miscellaneous$92,210
- iFuse Implant$76,693
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$69,583
- Halo Buttress Plate$53,035
- VERTE-STACK$46,235
- Spine System$38,658
How this compares
$4,535,573 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 196 neurological 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.
Other neurological surgery in Durham
- Robert IsaacsDurham$6.6M
- Khoi ThanDurham$192K
- Michael HaglundDurham$163K
- Timothy MillerDurham$102K
- Courtney GoodwinDurham$97K
- Erik HauckDurham$94K
- Shivanand LadDurham$91K
- Emad HasanDurham$79K
- Kristen JonesDurham$48K
- Domagoj CoricCharlotte$2.3M
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.