Courtney Goodwin
Neurological Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1538303235
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $65,400 of the $97,034 with a category attached, or 67.4%. Medtronic accounts for 65.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $35,757, more than ten times the $401 reported in 2019.
Across 159 payments — averaging $610.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$63K
- Icotec Medical Inc.$21K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$7K
- Stryker$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$417
- plus $2K from 7 others
Across 28 payments — averaging $44,167 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.
- Stryker$1.2M
- Carlsmed, Inc.$14K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$65,40067%
- Travel & lodging$26,55427%
- Food & beverage$5,0805%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 81 | $63,149 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 24 | $21,249 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 15 | $6,750 |
| Stryker | 16 | $2,357 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $1,575 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $417 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 2 | $398 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $284 |
| Medicrea USA, Corp. | 1 | $264 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 3 | $232 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $202 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $49 |
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.
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$59,592
- Other - Miscellaneous$6,452
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM 6.0, SCREW, Carbon/PEEK, POLYAX., FEN., O 5.5 X 45 MM$5,156
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM, ROD, Carbon/PEEK, CURVED, 6.0 R450 X 200 MM$5,156
- KONG-TL VBR E, EXPANDABLE BODY, L, 19 MM X 27 - 37 MM$5,156
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, ROUND, L AND SCREW, 12 X 43 MM$5,156
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, RECTANGULAR, M AND SCREW, 12 X 33 MM$5,156
- PASS-LP$264
- UNiD$264
- Vader Pedicle System$194
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$174
- Vivigen MIS Delivery System$171
- VIPER$171
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$156
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$149
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$137
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$111
- ReActiv8$109
- TRITANIUM$106
- ProLift$102
How this compares
$97,034 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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
- Christopher ShaffreyDurham$4.5M
- Khoi ThanDurham$192K
- Michael HaglundDurham$163K
- Timothy MillerDurham$102K
- 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.