Jonathan Riboh, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1578707923
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $86,797 of the $130,722 with a category attached, or 66.4%. Arthrex accounts for 61.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $61,285, more than ten times the $673 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 174 payments — averaging $751.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$81K
- Smith+Nephew$25K
- Stryker$15K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$9K
- Ossur Americas, Inc.$609
- Vericel Corporation$205
- plus $264 from 3 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $4284.93 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.
- Arthrex$17K
- Stryker$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,08115%
- Speaking & faculty fees$86,79766%
- Travel & lodging$12,63210%
- Food & beverage$6,4445%
- Education$4,7694%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 57 | $80,977 |
| Smith+Nephew | 29 | $24,656 |
| Stryker | 15 | $15,411 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 56 | $8,600 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 7 | $609 |
| Vericel Corporation | 3 | $205 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $179 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $47 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
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.
- SPATIAL FRAME$15,181
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$12,825
- Q-FIX$7,338
- IVY AIR$5,846
- LENS 4K$5,736
- CINCHLOCK SS$5,625
- Regeneten$5,484
- HEALICOIL REGENESORB$5,484
- MICRORAPTOR REGENESORB$5,484
- ICONIX$3,750
- FLEXIBLE GUIDE PIN (STRYKER ACL VERSITOMIC)$2,250
- OMEGA$2,250
- CROSSFIRE$2,250
- CHAMPION$2,250
- BIOSTEON INTRALINE$2,250
- HIP ARTHROSCOPY ACCESS & INSTRUMENTATION SET$2,091
- ARTHREX$2,000
- FAST-FIX$1,854
- Acufex$1,688
- OPERON SURGICAL TABLE$1,313
How this compares
$130,722 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
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.