Has Henry Elsner, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $53,547 in general payments to Henry Elsner, MD across 100 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 Henry Elsner, 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 Henry Elsner, 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.

Henry Elsner, MD

Neurological Surgery · Greensboro, NCNPI 1508857749

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $50,175 of the $53,547 with a category attached, or 93.7%. Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 94.2% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $11,293 and has fallen 65.3% since, to $3,919 in 2025.

$53,547in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 100 payments — averaging $535.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$50K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$2K
Globus Medical$379
Corelink, LLC$219
Zimmer Biomet$209
Medtronic$105
plus $400 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$50,17594%
Travel & lodging$2190%
Food & beverage$3,1536%

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	31	$50,420
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	35	$1,815
Globus Medical	2	$379
Corelink, LLC	1	$219
Zimmer Biomet	6	$209
Medtronic(2 entities)	6	$105
Boston Scientific	4	$76
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$52
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$44
Stryker	1	$42
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$33
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	1	$29
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$21
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$18
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$15
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$15
Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	1	$15
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$14
Amgen	1	$11

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

$53,547 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 196 neurological surgery providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$140,279

Medicare patients

212

Services billed

855

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	193	$2,048
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	158	$1,905
Celecoxib	108	$1,716
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	71	$908
Methocarbamol	178	$617
Tramadol Hcl	130	$586
Carbamazepine	13	$561
Pregabalin	26	$484
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	34	$325
Oxycodone Hcl	20	$256
Meloxicam	56	$238
Diclofenac Sodium	27	$221
Baclofen	30	$153
Dexamethasone	28	$111
Tizanidine Hcl	23	$101

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Greensboro

Randy KritzerGreensboro$21K
Robert IsaacsDurham$6.6M
Christopher ShaffreyDurham$4.5M
Domagoj CoricCharlotte$2.3M
John ThomasWilmington$1.8M
Alexander PowersKernersville$1.7M
Charles BranchAdvance$1.6M
Paul KimCharlotte$1.5M
William HunterGastonia$1.3M
Kevin CahillSupply$1.1M

See the full list for North 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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