Has Michael Handy, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $976 in general payments to Michael Handy, MD across 30 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Handy, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Handy, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Handy, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Greensboro, NCNPI 1174569529

Payments from drug & device makers

$976in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $32.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$337
Kerecis Limited$176
Radius Health, Inc.$71
Bioventus LLC$66
Smith+Nephew$57
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$51
plus $219 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$976100%

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
Zimmer Biomet	4	$337
Kerecis Limited	1	$176
Radius Health, Inc.	3	$71
Bioventus LLC	5	$66
Smith+Nephew	2	$57
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	2	$51
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$50
Carbofix Orthopedics Inc	1	$50
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	1	$40
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$34
Johnson & Johnson	2	$29
Davol Inc.	1	$15
The Orthopaedic Implant Company	4	$0

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

$976 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 845 orthopaedic surgery providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$49,350

Medicare patients

Services billed

308

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.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Greensboro

Marcus DudaGreensboro$289K
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
Mark EasleyDurham$4.2M

See the full list for North Carolina →

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.

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