Joseph Gentile, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Huntersville, NCNPI 1871757724
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $32,977 of the $49,953 with a category attached, or 66.0%. Catalyst Orthoscience accounts for 71.2% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $17,778 and has fallen 66.3% since, to $5,987 in 2025.
Across 128 payments — averaging $390.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Catalyst Orthoscience$36K
- Smith+Nephew$5K
- Encore Medical, LP$2K
- FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc$1K
- Arthrex$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- plus $3K from 9 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $42,562 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Catalyst Orthoscience$213K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$32,97766%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5003%
- Travel & lodging$8,23416%
- Food & beverage$7,24114%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 44 | $35,572 |
| Smith+Nephew | 22 | $5,396 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 3 | $2,234 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 2 | $1,255 |
| Arthrex | 16 | $1,070 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $1,043 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 6 | $992 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 4 | $935 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 11 | $823 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 6 | $419 |
| G21 SRL | 1 | $113 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Novartis | 2 | $35 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Catalyst Total CSR$19,025
- Catalyst CSR Shoulder System$7,669
- Archer CSR Total Shoulder System$5,145
- Archer R1 Reverse Shoulder System$5,145
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$4,022
- Mini-Open Latarjet$3,793
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$2,234
- Endobutton$1,915
- MICRORAPTOR$1,878
- Q-FIX$1,878
- AETOS Shoulder System$1,878
- DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$1,500
- EQUINOXE$921
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$454
- CSR & R1 Reverse Total Shoulder Systems$337
- R1 Reverse Total Shoulder$337
- Archer 3D Software$337
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$288
- R1 Reverse Shoulder System$273
- Healicoil$259
How this compares
$49,953 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 19 | $119 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 43 | $106 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Huntersville
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- John MasonCharlotte$5.7M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
- John EllingtonCharlotte$4.9M
- Mark EasleyDurham$4M
- Carroll JonesCharlotte$3.6M
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.