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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,836 in general payments to Michael McGehee, MD across 168 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 McGehee, 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 McGehee, 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 McGehee, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Hickory, NCNPI 1447487954

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.9% of the total across 168 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 99.2% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest.

$2,836in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 168 payments — averaging $16.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$3K
Stryker$22

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,834100%
Education$20%

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
Boston Scientific	167	$2,814
Stryker	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.

GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$128

How this compares

$2,836 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 269 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$412,383

Medicare patients

611

Services billed

3,140

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
Lidocaine	14	$1,084
Gabapentin	139	$1,009
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	47	$630
Celecoxib	25	$618
Diclofenac Sodium	46	$391
Methylprednisolone	38	$206
Ibuprofen	14	$186
Cephalexin	27	$129
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	13	$121
Meloxicam	20	$107
Tramadol Hcl	28	$78
Diazepam	25	$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Hickory

Graham McRaryHickory$12K
William RobinsonHickory$8K
Jessica UrzenHickory$4K
Andrew SumichCharlotte$181K
Patrick O BrienRaleigh$86K
Elizabeth BagsbyGreenville$33K
Krishna BhatSanford$30K
Jasbir DhaliwalSanford$23K
Jimmy MaliDurham$20K
Jerome WatsonStatesville$15K

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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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