Gordon Groh, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Asheville, NCNPI 1902853203
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $459,099 of the $479,976 with a category attached, or 95.7%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 99.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $107,973 and has fallen 64.8% since, to $38,010 in 2025. Among orthopaedic 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 76 payments — averaging $6315.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$478K
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$2K
- Abbott$122
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$49
- Arthrex$30
- Smith+Nephew$17
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$459,09996%
- Consulting fees$17,7504%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,6000%
- Travel & lodging$7870%
- Food & beverage$7400%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 64 | $478,158 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 2 | $1,600 |
| Abbott | 5 | $122 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $30 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
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 AltiVate Reverse$259,394
- DJO SURGICAL$214,481
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$12,605
- DJO Surgical Discovery Elbow System$7,000
- Geminus$1,600
- Align$1,600
- IJS$1,600
- Implate$1,600
- DJO Surgical Match Point System$672
How this compares
$479,976 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 845 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 61 | $670 |
| Gabapentin | 70 | $568 |
| Meloxicam | 162 | $469 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 60 | $384 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 28 | $122 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $100 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 12 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Asheville
- Richard JonesAsheville$564K
- 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
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.