Derrick Hickey, MD
Hand Surgery · Wrightsville Beach, NCNPI 1356376289
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,080 of the $6,735 with a category attached, or 60.6%. Arthrex accounts for 64.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,188 and has fallen 55.5% since, to $1,419 in 2024.
Across 49 payments — averaging $137.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$4K
- Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc.$2K
- Smith+Nephew$406
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$115
- Johnson & Johnson$101
- Si-bone, Inc.$85
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,08061%
- Food & beverage$1,45522%
- Education$1,20018%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 34 | $4,356 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 6 | $1,673 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $406 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $101 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
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.
- EVOS$290
- TRIGEN InterTAN$145
- NURTEC ODT$115
- NA$101
How this compares
$6,735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 79 hand 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 hand surgery in Wrightsville Beach
- Christpher KliftoDurham$575K
- Raymond GastonCharlotte$505K
- Ryan GarciaCharlotte$381K
- Richard MooreWilmington$177K
- Erica TaylorRaleigh$97K
- Tyler PidgeonMorrisville$50K
- John YanikAsheville$32K
- Zhongyu LiWinston Salem$29K
- Patricia WellbornRaleigh$26K
- Anshul AgarwalaGreensboro$21K
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.