Robert Macdonell, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1104315118
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $22,917 of the $33,278 with a category attached, or 68.9%. Arthrex accounts for 64.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $23,084 and has fallen 79.3% since, to $4,769 in 2025.
Across 76 payments — averaging $437.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$21K
- Smith+Nephew$6K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$3K
- Stryker$668
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$604
- Johnson & Johnson$564
- plus $1K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$22,91769%
- Travel & lodging$3,1039%
- Food & beverage$4,34213%
- Education$2,9179%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 12 | $21,451 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $6,148 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 21 | $2,762 |
| Stryker | 6 | $668 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $604 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $564 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 1 | $488 |
| Bioventus LLC | 6 | $347 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $147 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- RIGIDLOOP$487
- DYNATAPE$194
- HEALIX KNOTLESS PEEK$194
- OMEGA$173
- AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$152
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$152
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$152
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$152
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$152
- Xperience$147
- BlastX$147
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$143
- Journey II$143
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$137
- MAKO$136
- MOTOBAND$135
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$134
- Durolane$130
- AIR$114
- CROSSFIRE$114
How this compares
$33,278 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South 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 | 21 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Spartanburg
- Chi LimSpartanburg$320K
- David BarcelSpartanburg$19K
- Tyler LuthringerSpartanburg$18K
- William SmithColumbia$7.7M
- Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
- Brent PonceCharleston$874K
- Todd LansfordNorth Charleston$286K
- Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
- Richard MarksWest Columbia$176K
- James LogingClinton$118K
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.