Keith Maxwell, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Asheville, NCNPI 1063507739
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 97 payments — averaging $1370.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Choice Spine, LLC$97K
- Life Spine, Inc.$28K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$5K
- Bioventus LLC$2K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$450
- Abbott$417
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$43,61833%
- Consulting fees$57,12543%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,6003%
- Travel & lodging$24,78719%
- Food & beverage$2,6002%
- Gifts$1650%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Choice Spine, LLC | 25 | $97,193 |
| Life Spine, Inc. | 24 | $27,627 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 10 | $4,538 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $1,500 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $450 |
| Abbott | 7 | $417 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $248 |
| Ortho Development Corporation | 3 | $196 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 3 | $188 |
| Arthrex | 12 | $178 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $151 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $62 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $52 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Hospira, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Triton$66,506
- Triton SI Fixation$17,534
- SI Fixation$9,875
- SIMpact$7,313
- Zynrelef$4,500
- Stratofuse$1,863
- Blackhawk$1,750
- Tiger Shark$1,750
- Blackbird$1,750
- Tomcat$1,750
- VEO$1,750
- Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$1,569
- BONESCALPEL & SONICONE (O.R.)$1,500
- Boomerang$1,488
- Raven Lumbar Plate System$1,363
- Tiger Shark C$1,363
- CLARITY RETRACTOR SYSTEM-LATERAL$450
- Thunderbolt Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Systems$375
- VEO Lateral Interbody Fusion System$375
- Blackhawk Ti$294
How this compares
$132,895 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 42 | $506 |
| Meloxicam | 18 | $52 |
| Diazepam | 23 | $21 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Asheville
- Richard JonesAsheville$564K
- Gordon GrohAsheville$480K
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- John MasonCharlotte$6.2M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
- John EllingtonCharlotte$5.2M
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.