Has John Chiavetta, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $37,408 in general payments to John Chiavetta, MD across 31 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 John Chiavetta, 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 John Chiavetta, 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.

John Chiavetta, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Raleigh, NCNPI 1265435044

Payments from drug & device makers

$37,408in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $1206.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$36K
Stryker$615
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.$165
GSK$62
Baxter Healthcare$34
Radius Health, Inc.$19
plus $15 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$96192%
Education$838%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Zimmer Biomet	18	$36,498
Stryker	6	$615
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.	2	$165
GSK	2	$62
Baxter Healthcare	1	$34
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$19
Boston Scientific	1	$15

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.

GAMMA$170
T2$144
MAKO$137
Photodynamic Bone Stabilization Procedure Pack$111

How this compares

$37,408 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 845 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina.

See all orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina →

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$546,710

Medicare patients

902

Services billed

7,599

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
EliquisApixaban	42	$15,672
Celecoxib	171	$1,742
Oxycodone Hcl	213	$861
Amoxicillin	181	$461
Meloxicam	122	$451
Cefdinir	11	$395
Tramadol Hcl	66	$194
Clindamycin Hcl	49	$175
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	15	$152
Ondansetron Hcl	21	$138
Cephalexin	18	$122
Hydromorphone Hcl	20	$111
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	13	$95
Gabapentin	12	$91
Methylprednisolone	14	$89

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Raleigh

Gurvinder DeolRaleigh$2.8M
Rhett HallowsRaleigh$388K
John NelsonRaleigh$234K
Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
William JiranekDurham$6.4M
John MasonCharlotte$6.2M
Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
William DavisCharlotte$5.2M

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.

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →