Kenneth Weeks, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1568605921
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.7%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 85.6% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $57,889, 5.7 times the $10,174 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 116 payments — averaging $1033.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$103K
- Zimmer Biomet$11K
- Graymont Professional Products IP, LLC$2K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$2K
- Arthrex$846
- Stryker$299
- plus $410 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$52,34644%
- Speaking & faculty fees$51,44343%
- Travel & lodging$10,6209%
- Food & beverage$4,0233%
- Education$1,4291%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 65 | $102,595 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 23 | $11,307 |
| Graymont Professional Products IP, LLC | 2 | $2,256 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 4 | $2,148 |
| Arthrex | 14 | $846 |
| Stryker | 3 | $299 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $155 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $149 |
| Integrity Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $22 |
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.
- MICRORAPTOR$40,699
- Healicoil$34,141
- Q-FIX$31,038
- AETOS Shoulder System$12,141
- Accu-pass$12,000
- The Pink Hip Kit - Smith & Nephew Table$9,435
- Regeneten$6,908
- Ultrabraid$6,674
- NA$6,422
- HEALICOIL REGENESORB$3,308
- LENS 4K$3,308
- MICRORAPTOR REGENESORB$3,308
- Coblation Wands$3,028
- ACCUPASS DIRECT Crescent XL$2,471
- Q-FIX Hip$2,299
- Hipstruments$2,299
- Graymont X Kimbo Hip System$2,256
- Q-FIX Shoulder$1,890
- CAP-FIX$1,256
- MAGNUM$816
How this compares
$119,861 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 | 21 | $114 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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.