David Constantinescu
Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1750918215
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 182 payments — averaging $110.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$10K
- Zimmer Biomet$9K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$311
- Cerapedics Inc.$229
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$185
- Medtronic$159
- plus $319 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,99725%
- Food & beverage$15,05475%
- Education$670%
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 | 119 | $10,254 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 52 | $8,660 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 3 | $311 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $229 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $185 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $159 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $154 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Persona$2,845
- TRIATHLON$2,312
- MAKO$1,617
- T2 ALPHA$783
- Avenir$519
- SERRATO$299
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$294
- GMK SPHERE$292
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$291
- ESCALATE$279
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$229
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$198
- Affixus$196
- CellerateRx$185
- AVIATOR$171
- TRITANIUM$169
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$166
- AQUAMANTYS$159
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$154
- CERAMENT G$154
How this compares
$20,118 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 845 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Charlotte
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- John MasonCharlotte$6.2M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
- John EllingtonCharlotte$5.2M
- Carroll JonesCharlotte$3.9M
- John MasonisCharlotte$3.9M
- Patrick ConnorCharlotte$3M
- Bruce CohenCharlotte$2.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.