Ellis Tinsley, MD
Surgery · Wilmington, NCNPI 1285614578
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $47,753 of the $56,016 with a category attached, or 85.2%. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 92.9% of it on its own, with 25 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $39,378 and has fallen 97.6% since, to $959 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 159 payments — averaging $352.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$52K
- Medtronic$2K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$735
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$287
- Venclose Inc.$280
- Organogenesis Inc.$248
- plus $881 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3001%
- Speaking & faculty fees$47,75385%
- Travel & lodging$2,7995%
- Food & beverage$5,1159%
- Education$500%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 73 | $52,055 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 26 | $1,530 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 15 | $735 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $287 |
| Venclose Inc. | 3 | $280 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 6 | $248 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $172 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $86 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $67 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $64 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $58 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $46 |
| Abbott | 2 | $45 |
| Stryker | 1 | $32 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
| BD | 1 | $17 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Flowphysix Inc | 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
$56,016 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 970 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cilostazol | 33 | $430 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 21 | $258 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Wilmington
- William HopeWilmington$350K
- Mark MedleyWilmington$206K
- Kamran GoudarziWilmington$132K
- Jayme StokesWilmington$32K
- Brant HenifordCharlotte$831K
- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- Dana PortenierDurham$702K
- Paul EnochsCary$595K
- David IannittiCharlotte$360K
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.