RxDoctor Payments Data

Phillip Shadduck

Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1316921828

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (57.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Heron Therapeutics, Inc. accounts for 89.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $89,865 and has fallen 91.5% since, to $7,636 in 2024. Among surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$221,879in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 318 payments — averaging $697.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$198K
  • Asensus Surgical, Inc.$8K
  • Distalmotion US$7K
  • Vertex$6K
  • TELA Bio, Inc.$2K
  • Davol Inc.$703
  • plus $601 from 6 others
$125,864in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $7866.51 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$66K
  • Vertex$58K
  • Organogenesis Inc.$2K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$54,23524%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$126,38857%
  • Travel & lodging$34,38215%
  • Food & beverage$6,8753%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$221,879 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 970 surgery providers in North Carolina.

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