Has Dustin Hoffman, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,890 in general payments to Dustin Hoffman, MD across 143 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Dustin Hoffman, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Dustin Hoffman, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Dustin Hoffman, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Wilmington, NCNPI 1841528502

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.2%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 86.5% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $34,595, more than ten times the $2,995 reported in 2019.

$42,890in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 143 payments — averaging $299.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$37K
Zimmer Biomet$2K
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$1K
Stryker$872
Johnson & Johnson$738
Medacta USA, Inc.$573
plus $334 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$25,39759%
Travel & lodging$10,16224%
Food & beverage$7,33117%

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
Smith+Nephew	69	$37,116
Zimmer Biomet	18	$2,155
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.	10	$1,102
Stryker	13	$872
Johnson & Johnson	16	$738
Medacta USA, Inc.	5	$573
Think Surgical, Inc.	3	$163
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$45
Avanos Medical	2	$29
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$19
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19
ERMI LLC	1	$17
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$15
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$14
Medtronic	1	$13

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.

How this compares

$42,890 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 845 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$394,765

Medicare patients

714

Services billed

4,032

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
Meloxicam	666	$1,924
Mupirocin	222	$1,653
Cefdinir	101	$1,406
Celecoxib	29	$971
Methylprednisolone	172	$870
Oxycodone Hcl	162	$744
Gabapentin	88	$642
Dexamethasone	43	$306
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	36	$251
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	14	$138
Amoxicillin	73	$99
Pantoprazole Sodium	14	$85
Tramadol Hcl	31	$41
Clindamycin Hcl	12	$22

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Wilmington

Jack BowlingWilmington$201K
Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
William JiranekDurham$6.4M
John MasonCharlotte$5.7M
Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
John EllingtonCharlotte$4.9M
Mark EasleyDurham$4M

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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.

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