Has Fletcher Preuss, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $52,859 in general payments to Fletcher Preuss, MD across 56 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 Fletcher Preuss, 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 Fletcher Preuss, 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.

Fletcher Preuss, MD

Sports Medicine · Charlotte, NCNPI 1770043663

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $45,000 of the $52,859 with a category attached, or 85.1%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 48.1% of the total. Among sports medicine 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.

$52,859in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $943.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$25K
Arthrex$22K
Encore Medical, LP$3K
Stryker$2K
Globus Medical$314
Peerless Surgical Inc.$312
plus $748 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,5003%
Grants$45,00085%
Travel & lodging$3,6957%
Food & beverage$2,6635%

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	6	$25,437
Arthrex	11	$21,503
Encore Medical, LP	4	$2,620
Stryker	13	$1,924
Globus Medical	2	$314
Peerless Surgical Inc.	9	$312
Linvatec Corporation	2	$297
Johnson & Johnson	4	$195
Zimmer Biomet	2	$186
Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC	2	$43
Catalyst Orthoscience	1	$27

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.

DJO SURGICAL$7,631
MAKO$897
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$317
GAMMA$175
VARIAX$175
AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$170
Autobahn$157
SPATIAL FRAME$141
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$141
TAPESTRY$138
BioBrace 23mm$129
LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$129
HALL POWER$129
ALLOGRAFT TISSUE$129
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$116

How this compares

$52,859 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 158 sports medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$6,559

Medicare patients

Services billed

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 sports medicine in Charlotte

Benjamin RothrauffCharlotte$37K
Aaron EllisonCharlotte$14K
David PriceCharlotte$8K
Jason TuckerCharlotte$5K
Payton FennellCharlotte$5K
Eric WarrenCharlotte$2K
Brian WatermanWinston Salem$360K
Allston StubbsWinston Salem$184K
Robert BoykinAsheville$126K
Tally EddingsAsheville$109K

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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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