Has Howard Homesley, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,555 in general payments to Howard Homesley, MD across 39 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 Howard Homesley, 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 Howard Homesley, 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.

Howard Homesley, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1871578674

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,555in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $193.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$7K
Kerecis Limited$229
Johnson & Johnson$183
Zimmer Biomet$111
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$46
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$43
plus $26 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,82551%
Travel & lodging$1,59921%
Food & beverage$2,13228%

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
Stryker	27	$6,917
Kerecis Limited	2	$229
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	3	$183
Zimmer Biomet	1	$111
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$46
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$43
Smith+Nephew	2	$26

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.

STRYKER NAV3$2,250
MAKO$1,171
INSIGNIA$548
T7$250
SURG - SYSTEM 8$188
Kerecis Omega3 Wound$182
Kerecis Omega3 Surgibind$182
Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$182
Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$182
STRATAFIX$149
ACCOLADE$146
ZIPSEAL 24 SURGICAL SKIN CLOSURE KIT$143
Healthloop$111

How this compares

$7,555 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 845 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$820,540

Medicare patients

1,070

Services billed

42,624

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
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	47	$1,073
Diclofenac Sodium	20	$739
Celecoxib	51	$705
Methylprednisolone	36	$278
Oxycodone Hcl	38	$236
Clindamycin Hcl	29	$152
Meloxicam	69	$120
Ondansetron Hcl	14	$80
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	11	$66
Amoxicillin	16	$48

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Charlotte

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Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
John MasonCharlotte$6.2M
William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
John EllingtonCharlotte$5.2M
Carroll JonesCharlotte$3.9M
John MasonisCharlotte$3.9M
Patrick ConnorCharlotte$3M
Bruce CohenCharlotte$2.7M

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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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