Christopher Vanpelt, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Greenville, SCNPI 1801833470
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,076 of the $2,946 with a category attached, or 70.5%. Stryker accounts for 60.8% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $31,467.
Across 41 payments — averaging $71.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Centinel Spine, LLC$261
- Abbott$226
- Medtronic$186
- Boston Scientific$166
- Johnson & Johnson$81
- plus $234 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$87030%
- Food & beverage$2,07670%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 14 | $1,792 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 3 | $261 |
| Abbott | 3 | $226 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $186 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $166 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $81 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $61 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Amgen | 2 | $32 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $23 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, 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.
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,126
- PRODISC C VIVO$218
- XIA 3$172
- INCEPTIV$171
- PENTA$149
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$140
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$128
- AERO-LL$108
How this compares
$2,946 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 32 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 150 | $684 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 67 | $481 |
| Gabapentin | 41 | $405 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 25 | $232 |
| Prednisone | 13 | $204 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 55 | $142 |
| Methylprednisolone | 36 | $131 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 23 | $108 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 20 | $72 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 14 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Greenville
- Eric LenehanGreenville$50K
- Silas LucasGreenville$6K
- H Stanley ReidGreenville$14
- Steven PolettiMt Pleasant$3M
- Donald JohnsonMt Pleasant$2.9M
- Gene MasseyMyrtle Beach$1.2M
- Rakesh ChokshiFlorence$727K
- Willie EdwardsFlorence$687K
- Ivan LamottaColumbia$299K
- Daniel ReidConway$152K
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.