Dale Rader, MD
Sports Medicine · Statesville, NCNPI 1043202542
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (48.7%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medacta USA, Inc. accounts for 61.5% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,037 and has fallen 86.3% since, to $415 in 2025.
Across 86 payments — averaging $55.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$3K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$637
- Smith+Nephew$254
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$125
- Vertex$93
- Zimmer Biomet$87
- plus $647 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,33149%
- Food & beverage$1,99542%
- Education$46010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 24 | $2,944 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 5 | $637 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $254 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 7 | $125 |
| Vertex | 4 | $93 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $87 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $81 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 5 | $67 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| BREG, Inc | 3 | $48 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Amgen | 2 | $42 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $26 |
| Stryker | 1 | $22 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $12 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $3 |
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.
- AMISTEM$1,903
- GMK SPHERE$955
- STRAVIX PL$111
How this compares
$4,786 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 158 sports medicine 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 | 69 | $5,354 |
| Gabapentin | 90 | $832 |
| Celecoxib | 41 | $760 |
| Meloxicam | 146 | $475 |
| Methylprednisolone | 67 | $425 |
| Ibuprofen | 75 | $360 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 45 | $355 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 39 | $299 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 52 | $250 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 35 | $222 |
| Omeprazole | 23 | $107 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 41 | $95 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 20 | $91 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 19 | $58 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Statesville
- Brian WatermanWinston Salem$360K
- Allston StubbsWinston Salem$184K
- Robert BoykinAsheville$126K
- Tally EddingsAsheville$109K
- Rebecca BassettGreensboro$69K
- Wallace HarrisAsheville$58K
- Alan ReynoldsGreensboro$54K
- Fletcher PreussCharlotte$53K
- Anthony MaroisSherrills Ford$47K
- Andrew KerstenHendersonville$41K
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.