Dennis Dawson
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Waynesville, NCNPI 1144677881
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,433 of the $7,087 with a category attached, or 62.5%. It is spread thinly across 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.8%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,385 and has fallen 65.8% since, to $816 in 2025.
Across 166 payments — averaging $42.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$612
- Smith+Nephew$578
- Zimmer Biomet$528
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$506
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,22831%
- Food & beverage$4,43363%
- Education$4266%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 6 | $1,329 |
| Stryker | 20 | $1,269 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 19 | $612 |
| Smith+Nephew | 29 | $578 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $528 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 3 | $506 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 18 | $293 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 8 | $284 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $268 |
| Amgen | 2 | $223 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $218 |
| Convatec Inc. | 7 | $139 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $97 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 6 | $82 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $80 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $75 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $67 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 3 | $53 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $52 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $48 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $43 |
| Abbott | 2 | $38 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Novastep Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Product Portfolio$1,128
- PROstep$818
- Trabecular Metal (TM)$477
- Lapiplasty System$152
- SurgX$151
- Xperience$151
- BlastX$151
- MONKEY RINGS$140
- KRYSTEXXA$125
- NUZYRA$125
- Qutenza$111
- PuraPly$107
How this compares
$7,087 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 196 foot & ankle 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 19 | $4,300 |
| Ketoconazole | 45 | $1,698 |
| Gabapentin | 82 | $1,060 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 51 | $787 |
| Celecoxib | 29 | $490 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 15 | $281 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 25 | $268 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 27 | $238 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 28 | $167 |
| Allopurinol | 31 | $166 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 22 | $120 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 24 | $103 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $70 |
| Prednisone | 28 | $67 |
| Methylprednisolone | 15 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Waynesville
- Robert OlsonGastonia$473K
- Austin MatthewsLumberton$279K
- Matthew DzurikWilmington$142K
- Kristen McGinnessFayetteville$123K
- William RespessGreenville$79K
- Brian FutrellCary$71K
- Kenneth BloomMooresville$53K
- Stephen HeislerChapel Hill$49K
- Benjamin UmbelMorganton$37K
- Andrew HanselmanWake Forest$30K
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.