Linh Oconnor, MD
Surgery · Gastonia, NCNPI 1609940287
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 128 payments — averaging $226.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$25K
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$1K
- Davol Inc.$619
- Leica Microsystems Inc.$380
- Johnson & Johnson$206
- Conmed Corporation$192
- plus $793 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,90931%
- Food & beverage$4,98717%
- Education$15,01352%
- Gifts$240%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 86 | $25,479 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 4 | $1,264 |
| Davol Inc. | 11 | $619 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 2 | $380 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $206 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $192 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $122 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 5 | $121 |
| Novartis | 1 | $120 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $89 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $69 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $53 |
| Sirius Medical Systems | 1 | $53 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $25 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$22,957
- VOYANT$1,250
- ALEXIS CONTAINED EXTRACTION SYSTEM$1,250
- GELPOINT PATH$1,250
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- PROGEL$136
- OPDIVO$122
- KISQALI$120
- PIQRAY$120
- AIRSEAL$110
- Echelon Circular$103
How this compares
$28,933 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 970 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Anastrozole | 13 | $261 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Gastonia
- Augustine EzeGastonia$61K
- Jacob SchroderDurham$2.6M
- Samuel RossCharlotte$2.6M
- Jacob GreenbergDurham$1.3M
- Brant HenifordCharlotte$963K
- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- William HopeWilmington$761K
- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- Dana PortenierDurham$702K
- Dimitrios StefanidisCharlotte$697K
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.