Has Gene Massey, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,234,324 in general payments to Gene Massey, MD across 353 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 Gene Massey, 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 Gene Massey, 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.

Gene Massey, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Myrtle Beach, SCNPI 1881727139

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.7%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 92.8% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $335,234, 7.4 times the $45,455 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine 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.

$1,234,324in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 353 payments — averaging $3496.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$1.1M
Degen Medical, Inc.$70K
Medtronic$18K
Abbott$217
Boston Scientific$126
Stryker$63
plus $186 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$526,51043%
Consulting fees$613,49550%
Travel & lodging$86,3697%
Food & beverage$7,7251%
Entertainment$2250%

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
Alphatec Spine, Inc	245	$1,145,388
Degen Medical, Inc.	44	$70,230
Medtronic(2 entities)	34	$18,113
Abbott	5	$217
Boston Scientific	14	$126
Stryker	2	$63
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$45
Globus Medical	2	$40
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$25
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$19
DJO, LLC	1	$15
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14
Heron Therapeutics, 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.

Other - Miscellaneous$621,980
E3$59,837
SafeOp$57,683
LTP$48,250
AMP$41,750
IMPULSE$13,413
CLYDESDALE$10,301
Solus ALIF$8,375
MazorX - Renaissance$7,090
PLIF$6,970
MIS E3$3,616
LIF$2,345
E3 MIS$2,058
XR$1,800
IdentiTi$1,000
MULTIPLE$948
Battalion TLIF - PC$345
Mazor X Stealth Edition$270
Trestle Luxe$159
PROCLAIM$138

How this compares

$1,234,324 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 32 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$579,012

Medicare patients

1,013

Services billed

3,770

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
Gabapentin	168	$1,689
Prednisone	127	$1,166
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	53	$495
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	22	$264
Celecoxib	20	$240
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	49	$197
Tizanidine Hcl	35	$155
Naproxen	16	$101
Oxycodone Hcl	25	$95
Tramadol Hcl	34	$80
Meloxicam	22	$70
Diazepam	44	$25

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Myrtle Beach

Wayne BauerleMyrtle Beach$4K
Steven PolettiMt Pleasant$3M
Donald JohnsonMt Pleasant$2.9M
Rakesh ChokshiFlorence$727K
Willie EdwardsFlorence$687K
Ivan LamottaColumbia$299K
Daniel ReidConway$152K
Timothy BryanMt Pleasant$135K
James AymondCharleston$91K
Michael PeelleColumbia$77K

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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