Phillip Bostian, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Hickory, NCNPI 1043625361
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 201 payments — averaging $314.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$27K
- Smith+Nephew$21K
- Zimmer Biomet$12K
- Insight Medical Systems, Inc.$3K
- Stryker$376
- Bioventus LLC$89
- plus $489 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$28,95046%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,6694%
- Travel & lodging$23,45237%
- Food & beverage$7,94413%
- Education$2530%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 51 | $26,526 |
| Smith+Nephew | 39 | $21,101 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 71 | $12,178 |
| Insight Medical Systems, Inc. | 4 | $2,508 |
| Stryker | 5 | $376 |
| Bioventus LLC | 6 | $89 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 2 | $73 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $57 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $34 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Vertex | 1 | $25 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $20 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $17 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Journey II$36,724
- DJO SURGICAL$26,908
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$17,595
- Journey II XR$12,150
- Legion Revision$3,039
- Avenir$2,954
- Persona$2,697
- ARVIS$2,452
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$2,422
- ROSA$1,899
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$1,687
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Knee$1,500
- REDAPT$1,275
- OR3O Dual Mobility$1,168
- Engage Partial Knee System$1,167
- JOURNEY$1,024
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$611
- CORI$478
- Oxford$299
- Journey II CR$209
How this compares
$63,268 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 176 | $3,511 |
| Mupirocin | 103 | $684 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 104 | $619 |
| Meloxicam | 267 | $600 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 33 | $413 |
| Cefadroxil | 57 | $408 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 68 | $324 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 109 | $246 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $122 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Hickory
- 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
- Carroll JonesCharlotte$3.9M
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.