Has Erik Hansen, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $192,446 in general payments to Erik Hansen, MD across 323 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 Erik Hansen, 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 Erik Hansen, 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.

Erik Hansen, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1821418690

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $130,548 of the $192,446 with a category attached, or 67.8%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 97.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $109,540, more than ten times the $662 reported in 2019. Among adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$192,446in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 323 payments — averaging $595.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$188K
Elite Orthopedics, LLC$1K
Stryker$1K
Johnson & Johnson$504
Medtronic$300
Zimmer Biomet$271
plus $337 from 3 others

$311,545in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $10,385 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Smith+Nephew$312K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$130,54868%
Speaking & faculty fees$12,5347%
Travel & lodging$35,84919%
Food & beverage$12,0816%
Education$1,4341%

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	289	$188,354
Elite Orthopedics, LLC	1	$1,434
Stryker	11	$1,245
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	11	$504
Medtronic	4	$300
Zimmer Biomet	2	$271
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	3	$221
Vericel Corporation	1	$96
BD	1	$21

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.

REAL INTELLIGENCE$163,068
Journey II$96,454
K-15 PORK$36,941
Legion Revision$24,837
Tandem$18,721
REDAPT$16,790
POLARCUP$14,275
POLARSTEM$14,013
Legion$13,290
RI.HIP NAVIGATION$8,811
JOURNEY$4,827
OR3O Dual Mobility$4,576
LEGION TKS$3,752
Journey II XR$2,302
CORI$1,120
Engage Partial Knee System$833
MAKO$679
PICO$499
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$410
AETOS Shoulder System$410

How this compares

$192,446 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 30 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$355,695

Medicare patients

600

Services billed

7,812

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
Celecoxib	48	$886
Meloxicam	119	$273
Naproxen	12	$78
Amoxicillin	41	$61
Tramadol Hcl	12	$18

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Charleston

Richard FriedmanCharleston$691K
Josef EichingerCharleston$117K
Matthew SteinCharleston$29K
Harry DemosCharleston$4K
Patrick MurrayCharleston$3K
Justin BrothersMyrtle Beach$203K
John McCrossonMt Pleasant$176K
Peter RamseyConway$59K
Daniel DelgaizoBeaufort$25K
Frank ArmocidaGreer$23K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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