Mark Easley, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1790872430
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (57.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. at 57.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,197,054, 7.2 times the $165,796 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 1,198 payments — averaging $3374.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$2.3M
- Exactech, Inc.$1.1M
- Vilex LLC$234K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$234K
- Encore Medical, LP$23K
- Bioventus LLC$14K
- plus $67K from 19 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $5819.60 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medartis Inc.$50K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$16K
- Zimmer Biomet$12K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$9K
Across 1 payment — averaging $54,449 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Restor3d, Inc.$54K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,305,97257%
- Consulting fees$1,488,80837%
- Speaking & faculty fees$27,2001%
- Travel & lodging$163,2364%
- Food & beverage$24,6511%
- Education$32,8591%
- Gifts$950%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 651 | $2,340,832 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 226 | $1,131,061 |
| Vilex LLC | 117 | $233,830 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 79 | $233,713 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 10 | $22,832 |
| Bioventus LLC | 17 | $13,787 |
| Arthrex | 27 | $10,814 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 2 | $10,447 |
| Southtech Orthopedics | 8 | $7,946 |
| International Life Sciences | 2 | $7,750 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 13 | $7,440 |
| Advita Ortho, LLC | 4 | $7,375 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 13 | $7,026 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $2,700 |
| Curvebeam LLC | 1 | $2,250 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 8 | $1,416 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 6 | $728 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 3 | $217 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $123 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Fortis Surgical, LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $90 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| 3d Systems | 3 | $57 |
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.
- Lapiplasty System$1,370,823
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$954,448
- VANTAGE$723,112
- EQUINOXE$355,570
- Product Portfolio$169,465
- HINTERMANN$137,782
- Portfolio$59,168
- DYNEX$42,055
- RD Staple P1$18,178
- NITINEX$12,264
- DJO Surgical STAR Ankle$9,576
- 5MS$7,091
- RD Patient Specific Instrumentation$6,749
- OsteoAMP$5,950
- CoLink$4,938
- TAR$4,552
- Optix$4,248
- COLINK NEOFUSE$3,969
- Staple F&A Fixation$3,616
- EPIC FOOT PLATE SYSTEM$3,610
How this compares
$4,042,821 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 18 | $22 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 16 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Durham
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- Michael BolognesiDurham$2.3M
- Christopher BrownDurham$2.3M
- Samuel AdamsDurham$1.8M
- James NunleyDurham$1.6M
- James DeorioDurham$1.3M
- Richard MatherDurham$711K
- Marc RichardDurham$643K
- David RuchDurham$321K
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.