Neal Huang, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · North Charleston, SCNPI 1932606761
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (42.7%), travel and lodging and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 60.2% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $8,502 and has fallen 89.4% since, to $903 in 2025.
Across 52 payments — averaging $201.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$6K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Globus Medical$406
- Stryker$385
- Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$212
- Microport Orthopedics Inc$186
- plus $800 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$1,79517%
- Travel & lodging$4,21440%
- Food & beverage$4,48343%
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 | 19 | $6,315 |
| Smith+Nephew | 13 | $2,187 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $406 |
| Stryker | 4 | $385 |
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 2 | $212 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 1 | $186 |
| Linkbio Corp | 1 | $185 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $150 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $98 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $60 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $20 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $12 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Persona$2,342
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$1,622
- A/R Femoral Nail$406
- MPO Medial Pivot Knee$186
- ATTUNE$150
- ROSA$149
- TRIATHLON$139
- Anthology$122
- Legion Revision$121
- REDAPT$121
- OSS Orthopedic Salvage System$120
- NA$115
- GMK Sphere Revision System$115
- Arcos$111
- MAKO$106
- G7$105
How this compares
$10,491 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 89 | $988 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $62 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $57 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in North Charleston
- Todd LansfordNorth Charleston$286K
- Christopher BattistaNorth Charleston$58K
- Daniel SullivanNorth Charleston$22K
- William SmithColumbia$7.7M
- Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
- Brent PonceCharleston$874K
- Chi LimSpartanburg$320K
- Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
- Richard MarksWest Columbia$176K
- James LogingClinton$118K
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.