Joseph Hsu, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Charlotte, NCNPI 1083698427
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (40.7%), royalties or licence payments and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 68.4% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $212,025, 4.4 times the $48,233 reported in 2019.
Across 380 payments — averaging $1272.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$331K
- Smith+Nephew$111K
- Globus Medical$21K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$6K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$4K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$4K
- plus $8K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$129,13527%
- Consulting fees$196,87541%
- Speaking & faculty fees$91,43119%
- Travel & lodging$49,89310%
- Food & beverage$13,6263%
- Education$2,4851%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 193 | $330,528 |
| Smith+Nephew | 110 | $111,027 |
| Globus Medical | 22 | $21,092 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $5,800 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 10 | $3,722 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 11 | $3,500 |
| Synthes GmbH | 5 | $3,215 |
| Integrum Inc. | 9 | $2,369 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $646 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 3 | $291 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 2 | $215 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 2 | $178 |
| Axogen | 1 | $145 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $113 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $113 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $97 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $82 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $57 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $30 |
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.
- PANGEA$167,243
- AXSOS$96,314
- GAMMA$79,302
- EVOS$65,828
- HOFFMANN$55,460
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$53,000
- INBONE$42,500
- T2$38,038
- PRO$35,451
- TRIGEN$34,441
- VARIAX$27,212
- EVOS MINI$26,128
- ILIZAROV$25,063
- TRIGEN InterTAN$22,825
- Taylor Spatial Frame$14,548
- META TAN$11,396
- Peri-Loc VLP$11,381
- Peri-Loc$11,381
- Jet-X$10,750
- AUTOBAHN Tibia Nail$10,625
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 14 | $300 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Charlotte
- Kendall MasadaCharlotte$9K
- Sophia TravenCharlotte$6K
- Mark GageDurham$378K
- Christian PeanDurham$166K
- Holly PilsonWinston Salem$86K
- Timothy HarrisRaleigh$27K
- Keith WhitlockRaleigh$15K
- Andrew ChenChapel Hill$14K
- Sarat GangaCary$9K
- Phillip GrisdelaCamp Lejeune$6K
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.