Raymond Gaston, MD
Hand Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1053334367
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 475 payments — averaging $1365.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$150K
- Axogen$91K
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$88K
- Encore Medical, LP$82K
- Restor3d, Inc.$52K
- Zimmer Biomet$36K
- plus $149K from 17 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 124 | $150,296 |
| Axogen | 75 | $91,358 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 86 | $87,596 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 68 | $82,102 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 8 | $51,903 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 45 | $35,816 |
| PBC Biomed Inc | 1 | $35,544 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $29,649 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 12 | $21,386 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 8 | $16,111 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $13,623 |
| Pharmaceutical Business Consultants Limited | 10 | $12,994 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 11 | $11,826 |
| Curvebeam LLC | 2 | $4,500 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 3 | $1,088 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 7 | $727 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $216 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 3 | $147 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $30 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Medartis Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$648,478 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 79 hand 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.
Other hand surgery in Charlotte
- Ryan GarciaCharlotte$381K
- Erika GanttCharlotte$9K
- Peter WatersCharlotte$4K
- Michael AversanoCharlotte$2K
- John GaulCharlotte$825
- William WardCharlotte$745
- Christpher KliftoDurham$655K
- Tyler PidgeonMorrisville$193K
- Richard MooreWilmington$177K
- Erica TaylorRaleigh$97K
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.