Michael Dobson, DO
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Huntersville, NCNPI 1902028343
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $554 of the $754 with a category attached, or 73.5%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 43.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $276 and has fallen 59.7% since, to $111 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for colon & rectal surgery clinicians in NC, where the typical reported total is $3,517.
Across 25 payments — averaging $30.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$328
- Shire North American Group Inc$104
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$89
- Coloplast$69
- Cook Medical LLC$38
- Johnson & Johnson$27
- plus $100 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$55473%
- Gifts$20027%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 5 | $328 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 7 | $104 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $89 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $69 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $27 |
| Stryker | 1 | $19 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $18 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., 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.
How this compares
$754 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 27 colon & rectal surgery providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 23 | $1,565 |
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 18 | $1,322 |
| Metronidazole | 82 | $414 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 59 | $331 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 59 | $315 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 18 | $136 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 25 | $132 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 13 | $112 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Huntersville
- Benny ChongConcord$32K
- Coen KlosHendersonville$14K
- Julie ThackerDurham$14K
- William LymanCharlotte$11K
- Joseph PayneWilmington$9K
- Stanley FullerWinston Salem$8K
- Bradley DavisCharlotte$7K
- Guillaume ChevrollierCharlotte$7K
- Robert StevensCharlotte$6K
- Richard HuettemannClemmons$5K
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.