Robert Boykin, MD
Sports Medicine · Asheville, NCNPI 1518158633
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (34.4%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 97.3% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $37,788, 3.4 times the $11,173 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine 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 148 payments — averaging $848.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$122K
- Exactech, Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$290
- Abbott$158
- Catalyst Orthoscience$156
- Bioventus LLC$154
- plus $981 from 16 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $17,400 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.
- Smith+Nephew$17K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$43,23534%
- Consulting fees$25,35020%
- Speaking & faculty fees$39,44831%
- Travel & lodging$11,7319%
- Food & beverage$5,6535%
- Education$1460%
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 | 91 | $122,149 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 8 | $1,674 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $290 |
| Abbott | 7 | $158 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $156 |
| Bioventus LLC | 8 | $154 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $146 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $143 |
| Stryker | 6 | $142 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 3 | $136 |
| Vertex | 3 | $81 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $49 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $39 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $33 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Kinex Medical Company LLC | 2 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Ossur Americas, 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.
- CAP-FIX$56,853
- Q-FIX$28,569
- MICRORAPTOR$28,199
- Healicoil$16,649
- Q-FIX Hip$14,151
- ACCUPASS DIRECT Crescent XL$11,685
- LENS 4K$10,500
- INTELLIO$10,500
- Q-Fix Mini$10,500
- Regeneten$6,035
- Bioraptor Knotless$4,210
- Hipstruments$3,507
- Hip Pac$3,348
- AMBIENT HIPVAC$2,550
- Fast-Fix 360$2,000
- NOVOSTITCH PRO$2,000
- TRUNAV$2,000
- HEALICOIL REGENESORB$2,000
- MICRORAPTOR REGENESORB$2,000
- OSTEORAPTOR Hip$1,660
How this compares
$125,562 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 158 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 106 | $287 |
| Methylprednisolone | 38 | $199 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 17 | $104 |
| Naproxen | 14 | $99 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 17 | $68 |
| Amoxicillin | 23 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Asheville
- Tally EddingsAsheville$109K
- Wallace HarrisAsheville$58K
- Charles MaloyAsheville$17K
- Robert WhamAsheville$14K
- Christopher RoachAsheville$4K
- Shawn BonsellAsheville$2K
- Brian WatermanWinston Salem$360K
- Allston StubbsWinston Salem$184K
- Rebecca BassettGreensboro$69K
- Alan ReynoldsGreensboro$54K
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.