Daniel Cavanaugh, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Chapel Hill, NCNPI 1790004984
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $171,835 of the $245,856 with a category attached, or 69.9%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 98.4% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 239 payments — averaging $1028.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$242K
- Medtronic$1K
- Nevro Corp.$649
- Baxter Healthcare$649
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$575
- Boston Scientific$297
- plus $585 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$8,8114%
- Consulting fees$171,83570%
- Travel & lodging$50,65521%
- Food & beverage$14,3316%
- Entertainment$2240%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 193 | $241,853 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $1,249 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $649 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $649 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $575 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $297 |
| Stryker | 3 | $122 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $112 |
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc | 1 | $72 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $66 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| CMP Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $8 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$183,694
- Invictus MIS$22,095
- INVICTUS OPEN$2,665
- IdentiTi$1,546
- LIF$1,349
- FLOSEAL$649
- INTELLIS$604
- CellerateRx$575
- Omnia$371
- OsseoScrew$354
- Battalion PLIF - PS$265
- BIOLOGICS$209
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$204
- MEDTRONIC REUSABLE INSTRUMENTS$178
- CD HORIZON$136
- UNID_PASS$131
- Senza$127
- AttraX$112
- MAGEC Spinal Bracing and Distraction System$112
- TLIF$112
How this compares
$245,856 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 32 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in North 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 66 | $695 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 65 | $448 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 18 | $300 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 42 | $272 |
| Methylprednisolone | 27 | $154 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 13 | $110 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 12 | $49 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Chapel Hill
- Douglas WeinbergChapel Hill$38K
- Peter PassiasDurham$553K
- Daniel WilliamsPinehurst$443K
- Alexander LemonsPinehurst$389K
- Olumide DanisaDurham$198K
- Conor ReganRaleigh$149K
- Michael MooreGreensboro$83K
- Phillip HorneCary$45K
- Daniel LeasConcord$42K
- Brett RocosDurham$40K
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.