Jeffrey Frandsen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1831696616
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (42.0%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Ortho Development Corporation accounts for 64.0% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $11,264, more than ten times the $54 reported in 2019.
Across 96 payments — averaging $285.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ortho Development Corporation$18K
- Smith+Nephew$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Medacta USA, Inc.$273
- Restor3d, Inc.$203
- plus $965 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,20026%
- Grants$1,8757%
- Travel & lodging$11,51042%
- Food & beverage$4,87818%
- Education$1,9317%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ortho Development Corporation | 21 | $17,545 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $3,898 |
| Stryker | 43 | $3,021 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $1,489 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 3 | $273 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $203 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $192 |
| Intellijoint Surgical Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $167 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $112 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $65 |
| Active Medical, LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $35 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $18 |
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.
- Trivicta$13,140
- Balanced Knee Revision System$6,419
- BKS TriMax$5,562
- Balanced Knee System$3,047
- MAKO$1,456
- ACTIS$1,268
- INSIGNIA$553
- Intellijoint$168
- GAMMA$168
- REDAPT$148
- PlasmaBlade$146
- PRO$143
- GMK Sphere Revision System$142
- Entrada Hip Stem$122
- GMK SPHERE$117
- Irrisept$112
How this compares
$27,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 | 37 | $928 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 19 | $339 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 25 | $241 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 57 | $189 |
| Omeprazole | 29 | $189 |
| Meloxicam | 29 | $161 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 48 | $120 |
| Methocarbamol | 17 | $69 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Charlotte
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- John MasonCharlotte$5.7M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
- John EllingtonCharlotte$4.9M
- Carroll JonesCharlotte$3.6M
- John MasonisCharlotte$3.4M
- Bruce CohenCharlotte$2.4M
- Anthony KwonCharlotte$1.9M
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.