RxDoctor Payments Data

Jason Halvorson, MD

Orthopedic Surgery · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1033316773

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $125,317 of the $197,323 with a category attached, or 63.5%. Stryker accounts for 86.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $132,323, more than ten times the $976 reported in 2019. Among orthopedic 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.

$197,323in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 100 payments — averaging $1973.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$171K
  • Illuminoss Medical, Inc.$11K
  • Smith+Nephew$9K
  • Synthes GmbH$6K
  • Johnson & Johnson$377
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$132
  • plus $103 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$125,31764%
  • Consulting fees$42,20021%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$23,05012%
  • Travel & lodging$4,6202%
  • Food & beverage$2,1361%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Stryker57$170,814
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.13$11,410
Smith+Nephew7$8,708
Synthes GmbH6$5,779
Johnson & Johnson13$377
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.2$132
Wishbone Medical Inc.1$66
Piedmont Plus Innovation1$37

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

$197,323 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 21 orthopedic surgery providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$60,345
Medicare patients
97
Services billed
173

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Daptomycin16$3,258
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen12$71
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen12$71

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopedic surgery in Winston Salem

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