John Martinie, MD
Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1194810465
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (53.3%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.1% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $159,989 and has fallen 95.9% since, to $6,486 in 2025. Among 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.
Across 893 payments — averaging $797.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$655K
- Covidien LP$21K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$10K
- Teleflex LLC$9K
- Medtronic$8K
- BK Medical Holding Company Inc.$4K
- plus $4K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,9581%
- Speaking & faculty fees$227,77532%
- Travel & lodging$71,06110%
- Food & beverage$23,5143%
- Education$379,54853%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 790 | $655,478 |
| Covidien LP | 28 | $21,254 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $9,773 |
| Teleflex LLC | 9 | $9,227 |
| Medtronic | 17 | $8,269 |
| BK Medical Holding Company Inc. | 1 | $3,825 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 3 | $1,753 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 23 | $983 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $547 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $165 |
| Teleflex Medical Incorporated | 1 | $160 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $124 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $103 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $24 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$625,128
- DA VINCI SP$20,125
- EVICEL Fibrin Sealant (Human)$9,573
- HARMONIC Product Family$9,569
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$9,458
- EVARREST$9,458
- DEKNATEL$6,050
- Sonicision$4,124
- bk3000, bk3500 & bk5000 Ultrasound System$3,825
- Signia$3,000
- Ligation: Hem-o-lok Polymer Locking Ligation System$1,754
- Weck$1,100
- HemoBlast Bellows$875
- Percutaneous: MiniLap System with ThumbGrip Handle$160
- Emprint$156
- Valleylab$131
- VISTASEAL$124
- PEMAZYRE$124
- ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$112
How this compares
$711,863 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 970 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.
Other surgery in Charlotte
- Brant HenifordCharlotte$831K
- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- David IannittiCharlotte$360K
- Gregory StanleyCharlotte$304K
- Erin BakerCharlotte$221K
- John GreenCharlotte$202K
- Bradley ThomasCharlotte$162K
- Keith GersinCharlotte$80K
- Timothy KuwadaCharlotte$69K
- Dimitrios StefanidisCharlotte$68K
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.