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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $274 in general payments to John Welshofer, MD across 4 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 Welshofer, 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 Welshofer, 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 Welshofer, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Charlotte, NCNPI 1508847781

Payments from drug & device makers

$274in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $68.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Nevro Corp.$129
Boston Scientific$118
Abbott$27

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$274100%

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
Nevro Corp.	1	$129
Boston Scientific	2	$118
Abbott	1	$27

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

$274 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 269 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$448,274

Medicare patients

974

Services billed

9,256

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
Gabapentin	280	$2,387
Meloxicam	253	$784
Methylprednisolone	145	$666
Tizanidine Hcl	108	$585
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	43	$488
Tramadol Hcl	94	$299
Diclofenac Sodium	25	$168
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	12	$128
Methocarbamol	20	$109
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	20	$83
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	14	$74
Diazepam	41	$60
Ibuprofen	14	$60

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Charlotte

William BockenekCharlotte$446K
Andrew SumichCharlotte$181K
Michael OrtizCharlotte$62K
Kelly CrawfordCharlotte$20K
Peter BaileyCharlotte$10K
Usman AhmadCharlotte$8K
Sharon KanelosCharlotte$5K
Michael DoveCharlotte$4K
Puneet AggarwalCharlotte$2K
Jeremy HoffWilmington$152K

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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.

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