John Richards, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Camp Lejeune, NCNPI 1205222585
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,273 of the $2,962 with a category attached, or 76.7%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 54.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,721 and has fallen 87.3% since, to $219 in 2025.
Across 18 payments — averaging $164.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC$696
- Johnson & Johnson$278
- Arthrex$263
- Smith+Nephew$63
- Bioventus LLC$27
- plus $23 from 1 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $99,406 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Novavax Inc$99K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,27377%
- Food & beverage$68923%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,613 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 3 | $696 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $278 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $263 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $63 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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
Too few orthopaedic trauma providers in North Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 orthopaedic trauma in Camp Lejeune
- Phillip GrisdelaCamp Lejeune$6K
- Louis LewandowskiCamp Lejeune$1K
- Joseph HsuCharlotte$483K
- Mark GageDurham$378K
- Christian PeanDurham$166K
- Holly PilsonWinston Salem$86K
- Timothy HarrisRaleigh$27K
- Keith WhitlockRaleigh$15K
- Andrew ChenChapel Hill$14K
- Sarat GangaCary$9K
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.