Rhett Hallows, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Raleigh, NCNPI 1043498553
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (54.9%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 97.3% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $129,868 and has fallen 80.2% since, to $25,770 in 2025. Among orthopaedic 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.
Across 335 payments — averaging $1158.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$377K
- Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.$9K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$24
- Heraeus Medical, LLC.$19
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$18
- plus $43 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,6821%
- Consulting fees$111,86329%
- Speaking & faculty fees$212,98655%
- Travel & lodging$50,13213%
- Food & beverage$10,3533%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 277 | $377,454 |
| Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. | 29 | $9,102 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 22 | $1,355 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $24 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $19 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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$315,640
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$154,641
- POLARSTEM$115,257
- Tandem$85,921
- Legion Revision$76,221
- POLARCUP$69,162
- Anthology$46,182
- REDAPT$44,367
- OR3O Dual Mobility$42,115
- POLAR3$35,487
- OR3O$34,897
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$32,828
- R3 ACETABULAR$30,071
- Journey II CR$28,856
- Journey II XR$25,496
- Journey II BCS$13,950
- PICO 7$13,388
- Engage Partial Knee System$12,206
- VISIONAIRE Solutions$11,756
- CORI$9,996
How this compares
$388,015 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 | 59 | $1,615 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 87 | $560 |
| Meloxicam | 83 | $323 |
| Prednisone | 16 | $270 |
| Gabapentin | 59 | $244 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 11 | $81 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $69 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 12 | $68 |
| Methylprednisolone | 14 | $56 |
| Amoxicillin | 35 | $35 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 12 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Raleigh
- Gurvinder DeolRaleigh$2.7M
- Karl SchweitzerRaleigh$197K
- Adedayo AshanaRaleigh$181K
- Thomas FehringCharlotte$18.3M
- Walter BeaverCharlotte$7.4M
- Robert AndersonCharlotte$6.6M
- William JiranekDurham$6.4M
- John MasonCharlotte$5.7M
- Thomas VailDurham$5.7M
- William DavisCharlotte$5.2M
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.